Bernice Johnson Reagon (born October 4, 1942) is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in the Albany Movement in Georgia.

The Civil Rights Movement was a social and political movement that took place in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States.

The Freedom Riders were a group of civil rights activists who embarked on a series of bus rides across the southern United States in 1961 to challenge racial segregation in interstate transportation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolence is a philosophy based on the rejection of violence as a means of achieving social or political change.

Suffrage, in its broadest sense, refers to the right to vote in public elections.