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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

supremacists. The shift of the movement was characterized by the change from "Freedom Now" to "Black Power." Kathleen was in charge of organizing a student conference...

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

is ready and preparing to show him the way to the Oval Office. Cecil tells him that he knows the way and walks down the hall to the office. Forest Whitaker...

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...

Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 30, 2022. Barnes, Brooks (November 26, 2009). "From Footnote to Fame in Civil...

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...

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...

when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in interstate travel. As he neared the close, he prophetically referred to the bomb threat:...

with Freedom Summer and the Freedom Schools. In 1964, Height and Cowan brought Doris Wilson and Susie Goodwillie into Wednesdays in Mississippi to direct...

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

identity building, they believed they could empower Black Americans to claim their freedom. Just as Black power activists focused on community control of schools...

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...

two black female activists—walked to buy a cold soft drink at nearby Varner's Cash Store, one of the few local places to serve non-whites. But barring...

the Southern Poverty Law Center. The names included in the memorial belong to those who were killed between 1955 and 1968. The dates chosen represent a...