Half a century ago, a group of college students involved in the civil rights movement formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Raleigh, N.C. It became a national touchstone for ...

One thousand enthusiastic celebrants at the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee here were credited by a top White House official with making possible the Barack Obama ...

Introduction -- Part one. A movement education -- The nonviolent anvil -- Come get my mattress and I'll keep my soul : freedom riding -- The inner life of recruiting -- Part two. How democracy travels ...

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. By Sam Roberts A charismatic orator in the ...

There is no more dramatic measure of the distance our society has traveled during the past half century than the fact that 50 years ago signing your name could be an act of extraordinary bravery. In ...