Bernice Johnson Reagon explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement.
Here Diane Nash explains how she got involved with the protests and learned the tactics of nonviolent resistance.
At the age of 23, civil rights leader John Lewis helped organize the 1963 march on Washington.
Activist Stokely Carmichael explains some of the tactics used by SNCC organizers.
Bernard LaFayette, a co-founder of SNCC, describes the reasons why the organization needed to go to Chicago.
Journalist Daniel Schorr recalls how the media helped dictate the messages of civil rights protesters and activists.
Philadelphia native Elaine Brown rose through the Black Panther organization. Here she describes the appeal of the Black Panthers and her commitment to their ideology.
Maynard Jackson chose to enter politics in 1968, after the assassinations of national figures Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
Phyllis Ellison recalls some of her experiences as a young girl being bussed to schools in Boston.
Here Robin Gregory describes the awakening of black consciousness within her as she participated in the civil rights movement.
A timeline of events that took place during the civil rights era and beyond.
View a gallery of photos taken during the civil rights movement.
