Rosa Parks (2/4/13 – 10/24/05) was a civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress called “The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”. It was on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama when Mrs. Parks was arrested for violating the law by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus for a white man.

On March 7, 1965, about 600 people gathered in Selma, Alabama to begin a 54 mile walk to the state capital of Montgomery. They were demonstrating for equal voting rights.

Jimmie Lee Jackson was born in Marion, Alabama in 1938. He was a farm laborer and a deacon in his Baptist Church. He was also one of the little known heroes of the Civil Rights movement.According to some, “without Jimmie Lee Jackson, there would not have been a march from Selma to Montgomery.”

The Children’s Campaign was the voluntary involvement of children in civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham. Thousands of young people marched, were arrested, attacked by police dogs and tortured with water hoses.