Civil rights

A group of formerly enslaved African-Americans around the time of the US Civil War

Why we should remember… The Amnesty Act of 1872

Portrait of Ide B Wells

Ida B Wells: civil rights activist and scourge of lynch mobs

Young civil rights activists sit in defiance at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Oklahoma City, 1958

Jim Crow in the United States: a brief guide to the racial segregation laws

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American civil rights leader Martin Luther King in Washington DC, where he delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech to a quarter of a million civil rights supporters in Washington DC in August 1963. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Mourning Martin Luther King Jr The life and legacy of the civil rights leader . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat: what happened next?

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(Original Caption) Chicago: Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett Till, 14, who was found slain in Mississippi where he was on vacation, is near hysteria as she attends funeral services here. Till was found with bullet through head after two white men had kidnapped him.

American spotlight: how today’s protests echo historical outrage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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American civil rights leader Martin Luther King

The civil rights movement: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The story of Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights in America

Black rights activist Malcolm X

Malcolm X: Activism, assassination and how he predicted his own death

Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

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Crowds march through the streets of Chicago to hear Martin Luther King speak at the Illinois Rally for Civil Right on 21 June 1964

Seymour Hersh on the US civil rights movement and the Vietnam War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, hold the first sit-in (Corbis.)

Timeline Key moments in the American civil rights movement

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Is Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?

Malcolm X chats with Eric Abrahams – the Oxford Union president who vowed to “fill the room with blacks” – before giving his famous address on 3 December 1964. (Getty)

Malcolm X in Oxford: Black power amid dreaming spires

A re-enactment of the American Civil War. The conflict looms large in the US psyche 150 years after if began. (Getty Images)

Civil rights and the Civil War