“A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before: Remembering The Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi”, by Joe Bateman and Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, (The University of Georgia Press: Athens), 280 pages, 2023, ...
The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate and ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights ...
DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - June 10, 1963 is a day that will always be remembered by the people who lived through it. “That was quite an experience,” said Dorothy Batson, former Civil Rights protester. “I ...
Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...
In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book that brought history to life and became an essential chronicle of the ...
Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...
WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - One of the largest Hispanic/Latino advocacy and rights conventions, UnidosUS, called the nationwide immigration raid pushback the ‘Civil Rights Movement for Latinos in the US ...
March on Washington with Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, and A. Philip Randolph in foreground. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights Movement, names like King, Parks, and Du Bois headline textbook ...