How HBCU Students Impacted the Civil Rights Movement

Blacks who showed bravery in the fight for equal rights.

A Fight for Equal Rights - As the country commemorates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 1963, many look back on bravery displayed by African-Americans who helped lead the civil rights movement. Take a look at the role students and alumni of Black colleges and universities had in the fight for equal rights. —Natelege Whaley    (BIRMINGHAM NEWS)
Thurgood Marshall - Thurgood Marshall in 1967 became the first African-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.(Photo: Keystone/Getty Images)
Ella Baker - Ella Baker organized the Young Negroes Cooperative League in New York City and was a national director for the NAACP. She also helped form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee support civil rights activism on college campuses. (Photo: Courtesy of Library of Congress)/content/dam/betcom/images/2011/08/Celebs-08.16-08.31/082311-celebs-college-towns-spelman.jpg

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A Fight for Equal Rights - As the country commemorates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 1963, many look back on bravery displayed by African-Americans who helped lead the civil rights movement. Take a look at the role students and alumni of Black colleges and universities had in the fight for equal rights. —Natelege Whaley    (BIRMINGHAM NEWS)

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