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 ...

Art exhibit in Miami's Overtown displays legacy of civil rights movement 02:36. MIAMI - The Overtown neighborhood is currently hosting a remarkable exhibition that breathes life into the powerful ...

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 ...

played crucial roles during the civil rights era. A 20-month boycott by Black shoppers of downtown businesses in Greenwood, Mississippi, brought legal changes to the city’s hiring practices in 1964.

Ruby Bridges became a civil rights icon when she was 6. Yet she didn't realize it for decades. The world knows her as the little girl in Norman Rockwell's famous 1963 painting, The Problem We All ...

Part of his fortune was spent in 1910 to have Black craftsmen design and build an opulent two-story mansion near the Atlanta University Center. The house is open 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesdays and ...

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 ...

BLACK ENTERPRISE curated a playlist of 8 Black songs that contribute to Black art and ... The soulful song was released in 1964 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and tells a ...

Explore the pivotal role of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of landmark legislation, Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.”. Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political ...