May 4th, 1961, thirteen brave individuals boarded two buses in Washington, DC with the goal of traveling through the Deep Jim Crow South to New Orleans, to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling of Boynton v. Virginia, which declared segregated facilities for interstate passengers illegal. The “Freedom Rides” were initiated…
We often hear about the men of the Civil Rights Movement, but rarely enough light is shined on the women who stood front and center in leading it. One of those women who was monumental in jump-starting the wave of activism we credit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his…
On August 21st, 1966, six Black Civil Rights Leaders convened on NBC’s Meet The Press to discuss the state of the Civil Rights Movement for Black people in America. The panel in the Washington, DC studio included Roy Wilkins, the Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of…