Revisiting 1963 and the violence aimed at black voters, as seen through the lens of Claude Sitton, the renowned New York Times correspondent.

Medgar Evers

A look at some of the key figures in the struggle against segregation

LIFE shares the story behind one of the most stirring pictures of the Civil Rights era.

James Van Dyke Evers was only 3 when his father, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was shot and killed in the family's driveway. Van Evers chose not to follow in his father's footsteps — at what cost?

A new edition of Baldwin's 1963 classic pairs his text with photographs by Steve Schapiro, including some that had never been published.

While it is still fresh in my mind, here are some notes from Lena Horne’s account of the meeting between James Baldwin and Robert Kennedy in 1963 in New York. She wrote about it in her 1965 b…

International Civil Rights: Walk of Fame - Medgar Evers

"Hate is a wasteful emotion, most of the people you hate don't know you hate them and the rest don't care" - Medgar Evers