Civil Rights

MLK Daughter to Brothers: Don't Sell Dad's Bible

By Charlotte Alter

If Someone Tells You to Trim Your Beard They Could be Violating Your Civil Rights

By David Stout

Holder: Same-Sex Couples To Get Equal Legal Rights

By Sam Frizell

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom Riders: Rare and Classic Photos

By Ben Cosgrove
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The Girl Who Lived: Portrait of a Birmingham Church Bombing Survivor, 1963

Fifty years after the notorious 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, LIFE.com recalls a portrait that captured the lethal aggression behind so much of the rhetoric of the Deep South.

By Liz Ronk

Behind the Picture: Medgar Evers' Funeral, June 1963

On the anniversary of the day Medgar Evers' killer was convicted in 1994, LIFE.com shares the story behind one of the single most heartbreaking and eloquent pictures of the Civil Rights era.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Concert That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

LIFE.com celebrates Marian Anderson's life and career through the lens of a single, memorable image by LIFE's Thomas McAvoy, made during the 1939 Easter concert that sparked the modern civil rights movement.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960

LIFE.com presents a gallery of photos -- many of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- from a series of protests and sit-ins in Petersburg, Virginia, in May 1960.

By Ben Cosgrove

Brave Hearts: Remembering the Little Rock Nine

Six decades after nine courageous teens integrated Little Rock Central High School, LIFE.com presents pictures -- many of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- from those ugly and, ultimately, inspiring days.

By Ben Cosgrove

The March on Washington: Power to the People

LIFE.com presents pictures — many of which never ran in LIFE magazine — celebrating the people who transformed the 1963 rally into an era-defining event.

By Ben Cosgrove

Danny Lyon: The World Is Not My Home

For the past five decades the photographer Danny Lyon has produced a mix of documentary photographs and film—both politically conscious and personal. As the artist turns 70 this year, a coinciding exhibition will open at the Menil Collection in Houston.

By Jeffrey Ladd

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam: Eve Arnold's Quietly Powerful Portraits

In 1960 LIFE magazine commissioned Eve Arnold to photograph Malcolm X, the controversial, charismatic public face of the Nation of Islam.

By Nate Rawlings

Richard and Mildred Loving: Reluctant Civil Rights Heroes

Richard and Mildred Loving never asked to be heroes of the Civil Rights movement. But when the state of Virginia deemed their interracial marriage illegal, the couple fought back. And won.

By Lily Rothman

LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina

LIFE.com presents rare color photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, shedding light on an era that, for better and for worse, helped define America in the middle part of the 20th century.

By Ben Cosgrove

Freedom Riders: Bruce Davidson on his Awakening

50 years ago today, Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson set out on a bus headed to Jackson, Miss. to document the historic travels of the Freedom Riders.

By Crary Pullen

Death and Transfiguration

You are getting a free preview of a TIME Magazine article from our archive. Many of our articles are reserved for subscribers only. Want access to more subscriber-only content, click here to subscribe.Malcolm X had...

By TIME Staff

The Congress: The Covenant

50 years after the the Civil Rights Act of 1964, read TIME's chronicle of the bill's passage.

By TIME Staff

What Orval Hath Wrought

From the Sept. 23, 1957, issue of TIME

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