As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the U.S.

Efforts to pursue common ground with MAGA members aim to muzzle advocates for our most vulnerable. Yet history is filled with ...

Trump’s crusade against “wokeness” is co-opting the language of the civil rights movement to undo its legacy. Jessica Washington February 22 2025, 4:00 a.m.

The Civil Rights Movement, Lewis said in 1988, offered “the only real and true integration that existed in American society.” Yet, interracial organizing, as I document in my book, had obvious ...

The second civil rights movement began when we realized that racial inequality did not disappear in 1964 — nor in 2008, with the election of America’s first Black president.

Civil rights activist Diane Nash once spoke about the civil rights movement as powered by agape—a love for humanity that drives us to justice. Now, that same spirit calls us forward.

Even though Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the center of the Civil Rights Movement, he was feared and hated by white people—which was only exacerbated after he spoke out against the Vietnam War.

On Palm Sunday, April 13, the Titusville Memorial Marker Committee along with St. Paul Lutheran Church dedicated a marker honoring a white pastor who played a key role in the civil rights movement ...

2. Rosa Parks. Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.