There are many important people of the Civil Rights Era. One of the most iconic women of the era was Rosa Parks. She was born in Alabama,...

Plessy v. Ferguson was a MAJOR case in determining how African Americans would be treated in America, specifically the South, for many...

There were many important events that shaped the outcome of the Civil Rights Movement. One of the most famous, and nearby, events to...

Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri but from 1833 to 1843 he lived in Illinois (a free state) and in Louisiana (also an area where...