John Lewis: The Modern American Hero

Freedom Summer 1964 was a massive voter registration campaign in Mississippi. The first interracial movement of its kind, the project was led by Black southern organizers and staffed by both Black and white volunteers.

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

Peaceful protestors are faced with violence by police officers in Selma, Alabama, 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.