Movement leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. who initially considered ... like the Birmingham campaign of 1963 and the Selma to Montgomery Marches for voting rights of 1965.

The creation of Medicaid isn’t typically considered a civil rights victory. But the idea of health care as a human right was ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge crosses the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. The bridge was the site of the conflict of Bloody ...

He treated marchers during the civil rights movement, including men, women and children during the 1963 Children’s Crusade and during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march. Sharon Hamiliton Broach, ...