Civic education is not just important — it is essential. Too many of our young people do not know who represents them.

Today she is the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection ... Some names have become well known, like Fannie Lou Hamer, but others deserve to be. Two rural activists ...

The album was recorded in 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement and the same year Martin Luther King Jr. won ... a doctor,” said activist Fannie Lou Hamer. And love was the only remedy.

It was Martin Luther ... was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many ...

17. “Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is ...

On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall steps to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus.

Dozens of 5-to-17-year-olds wore makeup and fashions of the era to depict historical figures and highlight their achievements ...

But I was also aware of a statement made by the iconic Mississippi voting rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer ... the Husky Hall of Fame forever. MARTIN LUTHER KING would often say, “The arch ...

Coretta Scott King, 1927-2006. Wife of Martin Luther King Jr., who fought ... Wife of John Adams, women's rights and anti-slavery activist. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977. Civil rights activist ...