The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Civil Rights. The FBI’s Reading Room contains many files of public interest and historical value.
In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI’s capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Please note, that the information found in these files may no longer reflect the current beliefs, positions, opinions, or policies currently held by the FBI. Welcome to the Civil Rights Digital Library. Television News of the Civil Rights Era. An Oral History of the March on Washington. Ken Howard, a D.C. student working a summer job at the post office before entering Howard University in the fall, took a bus downtown to join a massive gathering on the National Mall.
“The crowd was just enormous,” he recalls. “Kind of like the feeling you get when a thunderstorm is coming and you know it is going to really happen. There was an expectation and excitement that this march finally would make a difference.” Only a few months before, in that electric atmosphere of anticipation, 32-year-old singer-songwriter Sam Cooke composed “A Change Is Gonna Come,” the song that would become the anthem of the civil rights movement. Encyclopedia of Alabama - choose 'History' and then 'Civil rights movement' WGC Library - use the red box of books labelled 'Black civil rights'