Voices of Change: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement was a nationwide struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote, the right of equal access to public facilities, and the right to be free of racial discrimination. 

No social or political movement of the twentieth century has had as profound an effect on the legal and political institutions of the United States. This movement sought to restore to African Americans the rights of citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which had been eroded by segregationist Jim Crow Laws in the South.

Join amateur photographer and historian Mario Medici as he retells the story of this pivotal struggle for justice and equality using many historical photos, songs from that period, and his own research.

This program is made possible with the support of The Friends of the Livingston Public Library.