Staff writer – African American Civil Rights Movement

Voting Rights Act of 1965

On August 6, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. This law was needed...

The National Urban League was founded in New York City on September 9, 1910 by Ruth Standish...

The Big Six The Big Six are the six major leaders of key civil rights institutions that...

Roy Wilkins (1901 – 1981) was a prominent civil right activist, leader and journalist...

Whitney Moore Young Jr. (1921-1971) was an American Civil Rights leader and head of the...

16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came...

John Lewis (1940) is one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s...

James Farmer (1920-1999) was one of the of the African American Civil Rights Movement of the...

Philip Randolph (1889-1978) was one of the earliest civil rights activists of the 1950s. He...

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister, social activist, leader of the Civil...