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 ...

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 ...

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...

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

Around three dozen people showed up in OKC to honor a civil rights icon and protest the Trump administration's policies.