One of the best protest tactics used during the civil rights movement and beyond is boycotting. Here's how to demand progress.

In Alabama, many have come through the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, but have you ever stopped to ask, why is it named Shuttlesworth?Well, the ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Many of the people who advise me to emulate King oppose diversity, equity and inclusion — the principles King championed and ...

As time inevitably passes, we must remember that speeches of this magnitude were not given in a vacuum—they were calls to ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town. King was in town to attend the National Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress. Dr. O. Clay Maxwell, a New York pastor, was elected president of the ...

They elected a 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. — a newcomer to the area ... Montgomery desegregated its city buses the next day. The boycott lasted 382 days. National City Lines bus No ...

🚨BOYCOTT ALERT 🚨 STARTING FEBRUARY 1st ... equality of opportunity that civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of. So, too, Target is scrapping a prominent diversity ...

That afternoon, the boycott organizers met and formed the Montgomery Improvement Association with an eye to potentially extending the protest, electing Martin Luther King Jr. as its president. The one ...

For example, at 9:30 p.m. on the evening of January 30, 1956, dynamite exploded at the home of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (along with the home of another movement leader, E.D. Nixon). The bomb ...

Marchers also passed by Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School ... including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march. In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel ...

“That was a really big deal and she never got any credit for that,” Forss said of Brown’s organized boycott. In conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Durham Museum also opened a ...