The civil rights movement that gained strength in the 1960s was marked by citizen activism – as well as police violence ...

A gathering at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute highlighted the ongoing fight for equal voting rights, honoring individuals and groups who fought for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Doris Maddox, ...

"Second volume of oral histories produced by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Oral History Project (BCRI OHP)"--Pref.

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

CDR copy; Extensive notes and bibliographical references in accompanying booklet. Performer(s): Documentary of a mass meeting, including speeches by Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King ; songs ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — He came to historic Temple Beth-El to tell his story, which is also the congregation’s story: How, during the early turbulence of the Civil Rights era, he helped to foil what would ...

This is an opinion column. It doesn’t work if this doesn’t work. A vibrant, economically thriving civil rights district in Birmingham — an opportunity that’s long overdue — doesn’t happen if its ...