Like Malcolm X, the Panthers would not renounce the use of force in self-defense, and they inevitably courted violence ... to address civil rights issues. During World War II, many African ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil ... violence. Her transformation of personal tragedy into activist ...

The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s ... Americans are also during the early Reconstruction years responding to events.

A fire destroyed the historic civil rights temple in Memphis, a landmark of the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike.

Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, a key location during the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike and Civil Rights Movement, was ravaged by fire ... a powerful reminder that in the face of obstacles, ...

The mass civil rights movement of the 1960s was met by racist violence that claimed the lives ... his mother from troopers’ nightsticks during an earlier demonstration. Jackson was so severely ...

In early May 1964, while the spread of communism dominated politics in the United States, the Civil Rights Movement was nearing ... “threatened with physical violence and economic reprisals.” ...

No episodes of violence erupted ... taking a stand on behalf of the civil rights movement. “During the civil rights years, the congregation did clearly identify with the changes that were ...