As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or minimized in favor of male figures. From organizing boycotts to ...

The Commercial Appeal Opinion Civil Rights Movement Memphis women, Smith, Walk and Crenshaw, made a difference | Opinion Lynn Norment Thu, March 27, 2025, 3:02 AM PDT 6 min read ...

From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick ...

Under her leadership, the Memphis NAACP advocated for civil rights with marches, sit-ins, voter registration drives, lawsuits and student boycotts. In 1968 Maxine Smith served on the coordinating ...

At the feet of this Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery, Ala., are the names of lesser-known women from the Civil Rights Movement. The new opera “She Who Dared” tells their stories.

The goal of the art is to evoke the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, according to Create Texas. But, Joeckel said, it doesn’t have to be a sculpture of King.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at ...

PLAY Episode Date: March 27, 2025 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 ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.