Civil Rights

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

Dylan C. Penningroth on Upending the Accepted Narrative of The Movement

 
By Dylan C. Penningroth  July 5, 2023
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How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi

By Dan Berger  January 25, 2023
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On Civil Rights Activist Curtis Graves’ Groundbreaking Electoral Campaign

By Nick Seabrook  June 16, 2022
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My Father Is a Civil Rights Hero. Growing Up with Him Was Complicated.

By David Dennis Jr.  May 19, 2022
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At the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements

By Hugh Ryan  May 12, 2022
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Blacks and Jews: Fifty-Five Years After James Baldwin’s “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”

By Jacques Berlinerblau and Terrence L. Johnson  April 9, 2022
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We Shall Overcome: John Lewis on the Symbolism of the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Urgency of the Civil Rights Movement

By John Lewis  November 24, 2021
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How White Violence Turned a Peaceful Civil Rights Demonstration Into Mayhem

By Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly  September 7, 2021
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The Man Who Set Out to Kill Segregation… or Be Killed by It

By Charles Person  April 28, 2021
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Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

By John Archibald  March 10, 2021
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The Story of Pan Am’s First
Black Stewardesses

By Julia Cooke  March 2, 2021
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On the Courage of the Earliest Civil Rights Bus Protesters

By Thomas C. Holt  February 4, 2021
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Powerful 1960 Letter From
Big Rock Jail

By Stephen and Paul Kendrick  January 15, 2021
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Civil Rights Activist George M. Houser Worked with the Greats of the 20th Century

By Sheila D. Collins  December 11, 2020
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After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church

By Martha S. Jones  September 10, 2020
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Forgotten Civil Rights Pioneers: A Reading List

By Jill Watts  June 1, 2020
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My Grandfather Participated in One of America’s Deadliest Racial Conflicts

By J. Chester Johnson  May 6, 2020
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Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

By Michael G. Long  February 5, 2020
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The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks’ Life in Detroit

By Susan Reyburn  January 28, 2020
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The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

By Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe  November 19, 2019
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Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

By Mateo Askaripour  April 10, 2019
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MLK’s Radical Alternative to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty

By Sylvie Laurent  January 2, 2019
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