From the days of slavery to the halls of Congress, many civil rights ... the movement. Although the MFDP was not seated at the convention, Hamer had exposed the moral rot at the heart of American ...

Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist. When he discovered no ...

Over the past few days, there's been a lot of chatter — and a lot of outrage — over claims that the Smithsonian's National Museum of American ... tied to the Civil Rights Movement.

As demonstrated in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibition ... Established by Congress, the EEOC was made to uphold civil rights laws against discrimination in the workplace based ...

The Civil Rights Movement is often heralded as a watershed moment in American history. It is remembered for dismantling ...

The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist ... James Baldwin were agitating for more action by American leaders. Peniel Joseph writes about this ...

people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. Booker T. Washington High School was a school for African American students in ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill using this pen and over 70 other identical pens that were then gifted to important figures in ...

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 Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

Penningroth upends this narrative in his book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, which traces ... us a window into life under American slavery where slaves often ...