Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice movements today.

Chávez admired MLK's work, and MLK was impressed by what Chávez was achieving for the movement ... by King's "I Have a Dream" ...

The event featured King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech and showed the prominence of the movement in national politics, ...

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise ... time in King’s career and in the trajectory of the civil rights movement," Hansen says. Among the era’s triumphs were the Civil Rights ...

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. gave one of his best known speeches, inspiring the assembled crowd with the words, "I have a dream ... of the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an ... Jr. brought people together with powerful words like his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech delivered in Washington, inspiring hope for a ...

In early May 1964, while the spread of communism dominated politics in the United States, the Civil Rights Movement was ... of his famous “I have a dream” speech, held nearly a year before ...

Ryan “There’s a real inflection point this May Day,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, said ...

The African American civil rights movement has inspired a lot of other groups that have suffered injustices. One example that we saw recently was the immigrant rights demonstrations around the ...