there were fewer than 30 Black students among more than 2,000 white students. Thomas had watched the civil rights movement unfold. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had recently been ...

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were ... important. What would it have looked like for a civil-rights movement to focus ...

Whitaker examines the pivotal year in his new book, Saying It Loud: 1966 — The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement ... as that was. Why? Because those states were completely ...

The new pope, Robert Prevost, who assumed the name Leo XIV, has been celebrated for being an American from Chicago.

One of the most important ... of "Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt" and the editor of "Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement." ...

Any movement that challenges the status quo will be divisive. Civil rights leaders knew that they were ... the Black church. Finally, the climate movement is likely to learn about the important ...

You may well ask, “Why ... Black people were lazier than whites. About 58% of white Americans said “little or nothing needs to be done” to ensure racial equality. 3. The Civil Rights ...

From organizing boycotts to establishing citizenship schools, Black women were the driving force behind civil rights ... power even when denied public recognition. As leader of the Cambridge ...