On April fourth, the nation's top civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King,Junior, was shot and killed in Memphis,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

It was taken from the historic "I Have a Dream" speech by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

She worked with Martin Luther King Junior in the push for civil rights for blacks in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

In recent days, Americans have lost two civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Later,he wrote some of the best known songs of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the sixties.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

In the nineteen sixties, a major black civil rights group declared it the national song of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

The memorial is where the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

He succeeded in beginning that process, though black Americans did not gain full civil rights until the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

As part of the agreement, Hayes promised not to act aggressively to support the civil rights of black southerners.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

The incidents included the murder of a civil rights activist in Mississippi and the killings of four young girls in Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

City officials believed that offering promotions based on the results would violate the nineteen sixty-four Civil Rights Act.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

Misato Miyauchi wants to know more about the civil rights leader and Christian clergyman Martin Luther King Jr.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

It is cut with a list of important events marking the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Yet she had to push to make herself heard as a woman among mostly male civil rights leaders.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Illinois decided that Negroes will not be citizens, but that it will protect their life, property,and civil rights.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Twenty years ago this week, President George H.W.Bush signed a civil rights law that Americans call the ADA.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

But first, a report on the anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in and the opening of a civil rights museum to honor it.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Prayers will be offered by Joseph Lowery, a well-known civil rights leader from Atlanta, and by Rick Warren.

VOA: special.2009.01.19