As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet ... In 1960, she founded the Student ...

The government eventually settled a civil rights lawsuit ... its activities SNCC formed a musical group, the Freedom Singers, that helped inspire and raise funds for the movement (one of its ...

There was a benefit for SNCC McCormick Place in Chicago, that featured gospel groups with a chorus of freedom singers from across the south. The Civil Rights Movement challenged racism ...

John Lewis, SNCC's 24-year-old chairman ... Others--about 30 Southern white students who have recently joined the civil rights movement--will enter white communities to try to extend to poor ...

If Selma was the apex of the civil rights movement, we are now witnessing the apex of the anti-human rights backlash – heard in President Donald Trump’s absurd claim, echoed by acolytes like Gov.

if they were violently attacked by those who opposed the civil rights movement, they were justified in responding with violence. In 1966, Carmichael was elected as chair of the SNCC. Not long ...