Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

Women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited with civil rights icons remembering the road to the Voting Rights Act ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to ... houses of Congress had 153 women (28 percent ...

Martin Luther King Jr. made several trips to Great Neck in the 1960s, where his relationship ... religious lines during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Great Neck became an unlikely ...

Cecile Richards died Monday after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, her family said in a statement.

Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...

King advised him on ways to advance civil rights for Black Americans ... D.C., as the director of the Women’s Bureau in the Labor Department, working then for Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 also led to other civil rights laws over subsequent years. By the early 1960s, the civil rights ... planned to start wearing women’s clothing at work was fired ...

The 1960 Presidential Election The presidential ... In his closing words, the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with Reverend ...

who shared insights on the challenges facing civil society and rights activists in the country. Ms Noorani, who has also worked as lead in the Women’s Action Forum for women’s rights ...

A self-described housewife turned feminist activist, she helped lead the women’s health movement in the 1970s.