Civic education is not just important — it is essential. Too many of our young people do not know who represents them.

Today she is the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection ... Some names have become well known, like Fannie Lou Hamer, but others deserve to be. Two rural activists ...

The album was recorded in 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement and the same year Martin Luther King Jr. won the ... a doctor,” said activist Fannie Lou Hamer. And love was the only ...

It was Martin Luther King ... was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and ...

On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall steps to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus.

Dozens of 5-to-17-year-olds wore makeup and fashions of the era to depict historical figures and highlight their achievements ...

Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006. Wife of Martin Luther King Jr., who fought for ... women's rights and anti-slavery activist. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977. Civil rights activist, member of the ...

Dirden is an actor and director who has appeared in TV shows like The Americans and plays like the Tony Award-winning All The Way (he played Martin Luther King Jr. alongside Bryan Cranston as ...

Martin Luther ... for years. Fannie Lou Hamer, an activist who suffered physically and emotionally as a freedom fighter in the Jim Crow South, wasn’t quiet about her dismay when King wouldn ...