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 ...

Chicago Tonight: Black Voices. New Opera Showcases Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement. Clip: 5/28/2025 | 8m 28s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Lesser-known Black female heroes are taking ...

Lewis was inspired by King to dive headfirst into the Civil Rights Movement, beginning by participating in the first wave of lunch counter sit-ins in Tennessee, per the U.S. Civil Rights Trail.

Civil Rights Movement Memphis women, Smith, Walk and Crenshaw, made a difference | Opinion Each of these pioneering Memphis women – Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk, and Cornelia Crenshaw ...

Black women made MLK's March on Washington happen. Yet their voices went unheard. Black women have always been a crucial part of the civil rights struggle – not only as part of the masses and ...

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 ...

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission ...

These foot soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement are the focus of Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom,” a richly researched and detailed new history of the underground schools that sprang up ...

Composer Jasmine Arielle Barnes (left) and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton have written a new opera, “She Who Dared,” about the unrecognized women of the Civil Rights era.

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