A s 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 ...

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 ...

In the aura of all the achievements the march represented, a group of Black women held a meeting called “After the March, What?” Dorothy Height, already a legend of the Civil Rights Movement ...

A group of women sewing a quilt on the porch of a property ... Established by Congress, the EEOC was made to uphold civil rights laws against discrimination in the workplace based on various ...

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

and SNCC within the Civil Rights framework of Civil Rights from the pulpit. Throughout the rest of the 1960s and beyond, Lawson had a hand in nearly every major event of the movement—from ...

A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who worked alongside Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station ...