The Walk to Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement on June 23, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. It drew crowds of an estimated 125,000 or...

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge...

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (commonly known as the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington) was held in Washington, D.C...

to a decline in Detroit's population and eroding its tax base as jobs moved beyond the reach of urban low-income workers. The Detroit Walk to Freedom...

1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom, "the leading local newspaper announced it would feature a one-a-week column by a prominent local Negro. Trying to be a laborer...

refrain in Detroit, in June 1963, before 25,000 people in Detroit's Cobo Hall immediately after the 125,000-strong Great Walk to Freedom on June 23,...

The Long Walk Home is a 1990 American historical drama film starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, and directed by Richard Pearce. Set in Alabama,...

Matthew 5:1-2. There, Jesus is said to see the crowds, to go up the mountain accompanied by his disciples, to sit down, and to begin his speech. He comes down...

began to subside. Yet Bridges remained the only child in her class, as she would until the following year. Every morning, as Bridges walked to school...

turned over leadership of the growing Detroit group to Elijah Muhammad, and the Allah Temple of Islam changed its name to the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad...

the Fourteenth Amendment. The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness...

enact his segregation bills. Claiming that Little Rock had to assert their rights and freedom against the federal decision, in September 1958, Faubus signed...

rights of freedom and American citizenship cannot receive from the nation that efficient protection which heretofore was unhesitatingly accorded to slavery...

Jobs and Freedom in August of that same year, brought the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" to wide audiences. He sang it on the 50-mile walk from Selma...

strength to social movements, allowing oppressed groups to reinforce their shared identity and communicate their demands for equity. Freedom Singing,...

shoes to replace the tattered footwear of Montgomery's black citizens, many of whom walked everywhere rather than ride the buses and submit to Jim Crow...

his return to the United States, Malcolm X continued to speak about the issue of Palestine describing in 1965 in one of his speeches in Detroit how "We need...

there one night. Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, "We don't serve colored people...

Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer (sometimes referred to as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project), was a...

history or helped bring about change (such as 2013's Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom or The Butler), Selma doesn't feel like freeze-dried hagiography. Peter...

by their father as young children. In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D.—according to his father—was "a little rough at times" and "let...

No Easy Walk to Freedom is a studio album by the American folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in 1986 by Gold Castle Records. Its release coincided...

Pt. 1 (1962)". AllMusic. Netaktion, LLC. Retrieved January 31, 2021. "Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Smithsonian Institution...

"John Carlos" (PDF). Freedom Weekend. Archived from the original on December 18, 2008. Retrieved November 9, 2008. "Smith: 'They tried to make it a moment...

Because public schools in Columbia did not allow married women to teach, she was asked to resign when she married Andrew Whitfield Simkins in December 1929...

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed...

Emmett moved to Detroit, where she met and married "Pink" Bradley in 1951. Emmett preferred living in Chicago, so he returned there to live with his...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Cooper v. Aaron Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court...

Birmingham, Alabama jail and raised $50,000 to release other civil rights protesters. He contributed to the 1961 Freedom Rides, and supported voter registration...

Black Radical Congress in Detroit launched a campaign to create a model based on the Freedom Schools. Philadelphia Freedom Schools is an independent community...