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Explore the untold stories of lesser-known heroes and heroines of the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil rights activist Joyce Ladner spoke at the University of Missouri's Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, recalling others from the movement.

Three books delve into the Civil Rights Movement from Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent campaigns to the rise of the Black Panthers.

During the civil rights movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee developed a system of shared rides for activists in the South called the Sojourner Motor Fleet. Morning Edition's Leah Fleming interviews members Freddie Greene Biddle and Judy Richardson to talk about how the fleet was organized right out of SNCC's Atlanta headquarters. 

The president of the oldest HBCU in North Carolina is speaking out against a recent incident where law enforcement stopped a busload of students from the

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Launched into politics by his father's murder, John Patterson became a national face of white Alabama defiance against the civil rights movement.