Wednesdays in Mississippi was an activist group during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s. Northern women of different races...

(1913–1976) was an American civil rights activist who co-founded Wednesdays in Mississippi. She was born Penelope Spiegel to a German Jewish immigrant family...

protect himself in tense situations. White succeeded Johnson as the head of the NAACP in an acting capacity in 1929, taking over officially in 1931, and led...

Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: Sermo in monte) is a collection of sayings spoken by Jesus of Nazareth found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6,...

his death in 1975. Muhammad was also the teacher and mentor of Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, and his son, Warith Deen Mohammed. In the 1930s...

Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over...

Conversations with John A. Williams. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-1817-1, p 135. Young, Paul (March 30, 2014). "Real Life...

Twain, play those banjos as we go down the Mississippi, 'round the Gulf of Mexico. Following his success in the film Carmen Jones (1954), Belafonte had...

old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Bridges was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was six years old, her parents...

phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century. It began in the early 1960s, and continued through the early...