Here is a fantastic resource on the civil rights movement! It includes reading materials and worksheets, and particularly highlights major legislation and the role of the judicial branch in the federal government in addressing the...

A condensed biography of Richard "Dick" Gregory, comedian and Civil Rights activist.

Learn about the achievements of civil rights activist Juanita Abernathy in this concise biography.

Read a concise biography of a Civil Rights Activist and broadcaster from Georgia.

Read this brief biography of singer/actress Lena Horne regarding her role as a Civil Rights Activist.

This encyclopedia entry talks about the Civil Rights Congress, a group that gave legal defense for blacks, but was hampered by its support of the Communist Party during the Cold War.

Ivan Allen started as a segregationist and became and advocate for Civil Rights. Learn more about him in this brief biography.

This biography highlights how musician Harry Belafonte played a part in the Civil Rights Movement.

On December 1, 1955, the late Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat and made civil rights history.

Provides an overview and basic introduction to the civil rights movement of African Americans.

Grammy Award winning Nancy Wilson, a civil rights activist, is the center of this brief biography.

A biographical profile of W.E.B. Du Bois, an American civil rights activist (1868-1963), who worked to promote equal rights for African Americans.

A focused biography on the role Andrew Young has played in the Civil Rights Movement.

This is a concise biography highlighting Maynard Jackson's role in the Civil Rights Movements.

Ralph McGill made several contributions to the Civil Rights Movement as a journalist as noted in this concise biography.

Many African American veterans joined the Civil Rights Movement after World War II when they found themselves facing continued discrimination at home. Learn about some of the veterans who were prominent activists.

This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia provides a brief biography of civil rights activist Rosa Parks and details her refusal to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Tells the story of civil rights activist Rob Williams and his belief that Black Americans needed to draw guns on violent racists.

A good biography of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered for his attempts to integrate institutions in Jackson, Mississippi.

This encyclopedia entry recounts briefly the life of Roy Wilkins, a very influential civil rights leader.

Informative biography of one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading civil rights group of the 1960s.

This brief biography of Ralph Abernathy highlights his contributions to the Civil Rights Movements.

In the early 1960s civil rights activists put the ban on segregation to the test. In 1961, "Freedom riders," boarded buses headed south to test the federal ban on segregated travel. And in 1962, the University of Mississippi was ordered...

Biographical information on Bayard Rustin, African-American civil rights activist who was a close adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr.