From the days of slavery to the halls of Congress, many civil rights ... the movement. Although the MFDP was not seated at the convention, Hamer had exposed the moral rot at the heart of American ...

The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist ... James Baldwin were agitating for more action by American leaders. Peniel Joseph writes about this ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular ... in Philadelphia and helped launch the American Black Cross disaster relief organization.

As demonstrated in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibition ... Established by Congress, the EEOC was made to uphold civil rights laws against discrimination in the workplace based ...

Over the past few days, there's been a lot of chatter — and a lot of outrage — over claims that the Smithsonian's National Museum of American ... tied to the Civil Rights Movement.

people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. Booker T. Washington High School was a school for African American students in ...

Penningroth upends this narrative in his book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, which traces ... us a window into life under American slavery where slaves often ...

For proof positive of the human capacity to overcome all manners of strife and realize the American Dream ... and protest marches during the civil rights movement (“Rolls Down Like Water ...

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 ...

The project has been made possible through three grants –$20,000 from the City of Orangeburg, $25,000 from the National Park Service's African American Civil Rights Network and $15,000 from ...