The author of Marked, Unmarked, Remembered, a new book of photographs commemorating traumas in America’s past, Lichtenstein recalls Till’s murder with the image above, taken in Money ...

Known for his photographs of the civil rights movement, Gordon Parks spent two years in the French capital for 'Life' magazine, from 1949 to 1951. Here, he captured images of American expatriate ...

Addressing Inequities Today The modern civil rights movement is working to address the less visible but very important inequities in our society. Opportunity in America should mean everyone has a ...

Morris had an expansive vision of freedom that went beyond his antislavery work. Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Morris’s activism was multifaceted.

Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement. Topping that list is Maxine Smith, who was a brilliant and gutsy ...

The civil rights movement gave rise to an extraordinary ... You may not know his name, but if you look closely at photographs from that era, you’ll see him. Standing beside presidents, meeting ...

April 11 marks a century since the birth of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the Detroit mother of five murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement.

and archival photographs and footage. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened in tandem with the Museum of Mississippi History on Dec. 9, 2017, in celebration of the state's bicentennial and is ...