When President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, it helped other parts of American society to accept desegregation.

In the 1950s, more than 40,000 citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus service for 381 days.

Historian Yohuru Williams sums up the tumultuous political and cultural movements of the 1960s.

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was one of the South's most prominent Civil Rights leaders. He worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., co-founded the SCLC and refused to waver even after he was brutally attacked.