Though the suffrage movement failed to exclude African-American women, and many obstacles came in the way of their voting (e.g., poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.), "African-American women were not strangers to community activism." Learn...

Read a brief biography of W.E.B. DuBois, who was an early civil rights activist and supporter of equal opportunity and treatment for African-Americans. See how he acted on his beliefs. Included is a brief quiz about the Progressive Era.

A good biography of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered for his attempts to integrate institutions in Jackson, Mississippi.

W. E. B. DuBois is featured here for his writings which advocated human rights for all, but particularly for African Americans in the early twentieth century. Click "W. E. B. DuBois Activities" for related materials.

This biography details the life and journalistic career of African American women's rights activist Ida B. Wells Barnett.

A brief encyclopedia entry about the influential civil rights leader, Walter White.

Informative biography of one of the founding leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading civil rights group of the 1960s.

This brief encyclopedia article gives information about W. E. B. DuBois, the controversial founder of the NAACP. He was the foremost black intellect of the early 1900's.

Follow the civil rights quest for integrated schools from the beginning in 1849 through the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education and the struggle that ensued for decades following in the most reluctant...

From a paper written for a school project, find detailed notes on the Montgomery Bus Boycott, how it started, who started it, who participated, and the outcome.

Presents details of important people and interesting historical events relating to the NAACP in a timeline format.

The fist African American to earn a PhD from Harvard, W.E.B. DuBois was not only an inspirational and extraordinary individual, but a champion in the fight for equality and the end of racism. Read about his founding of the organization...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Myrlie Evers-Williams, an African American activist and the wife of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, whose racially motivated murder in 1963 made him a national icon. In 1995-98...

Learn about the life of Walter White, foremost spokesman for African Americans for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931-55) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features William Monroe Trotter, an African American journalist and vocal advocate of racial equality in the early 20th century. From the pages of his weekly newspaper, The Guardian, he criticized...

Read about the life of Roy Wilkins, black American civil-rights leader who served as the executive director (1955-77) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was often referred to as the senior...

Though given the right to vote, African-American men and women faced discrimination and racist practices that often prevented them from voting in the early 20th century. Read about some of these practices, and how, for example, the Texas...

The city that best exemplifies white resistance to integration and the tension and conflict of the civil rights movement is Birmingham, Alabama. Learn about events of and reactions to the civil rights movement of the early 1960s in...