The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period ... Leaders like Malcolm X, who were more radical and more militant, promoted Black Power. They argued that Black Americans ...

It’s before any major civil rights acts of the ’60s had passed ... the rise of the Black Power movement. There was also a focus among the black leadership, the NAACP types, National ...

Here she explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first things that's important ... you wonder why that song could capture the power of what they were doing ...

From organizing boycotts to establishing citizenship schools, Black women were the driving force behind civil rights ... power even when denied public recognition. As leader of the Cambridge ...

O n May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that ... to supporting efforts to rebuild this cornerstone of the civil rights movement," they wrote. Before the fire, the Clayborn Temple was ...