March 7, 1965, is known as Bloody Sunday after hundreds of people peacefully marched from Selma to Montgomery but were ...

Why it matters: Decades later, Tennessee is again at the center of a civil rights fight. Organizers and lawmakers warn that ...

The cartoon appeared to be a cropped version of a SNCC cartoon that upset Jewish groups at the time. Harvard denounced the image Monday on Instagram, and announced that its administrative board ...

March 7, 1965, is known as Bloody Sunday after hundreds of people peacefully marched from Selma to Montgomery but were violently attacked.

He became active in the Southern civil rights movement with SNCC, registering voters in the Deep South, and helped form an independent black political group, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization.

The Rev. Dr. David Forbes is a Shaw University alumnus who was a founding member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. Forbes was a 20-year-old sophomore when Shaw hosted ...

In a life dedicated to organizing people to make change-from working with SNCC and the United Farm Workers to Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown, and President Obama-Marshall Ganz has seen and learned a lot, ...

As chair of SNCC he coordinated voter registration and community activities of Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Deeply involved in the planning of the 1963 March on Washington, Lewis at age 23 was ...