Freedom Summer 1964 was a massive voter registration campaign in Mississippi and the first interracial movement of its kind.

From the NAACP to the Black Lives Matter movement, we're counting down the biggest civil rights turning points in every decade.

Historian Yohuru Williams explains the events leading up to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

For 382 days, almost the entire African-American population of Montgomery, Alabama, including leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, refused to ride on segregated buses, a turning point in the American civil rights movement.