The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate and ...

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

"The civil rights movement was arguably the most important reform in American history. This book recounts the extraordinary and often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary blacks overcame ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...

The Birmingham movement in 1963 was a turning point when children joined the struggle for equal rights. The brutal response from white segregationists galvanized support for the Civil Rights Act.

Over a five-year span between 1865 and 1870, following the end of the Civil War, three constitutional amendments were ratified to end slavery (the 13 th), make formerly enslaved people U.S. citizens ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — On a sunny, breezy afternoon Paulette Roby shows visitors the way to Kelly Ingram Park, proudly pointing out Black-owned businesses along the way, including barber shops and ...

It's been 60 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Across the country, civil rights groups, scholars and others have commemorated the landmark law with panels, comprehensive ...

He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation. By Bernard Mokam Joseph ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the ...

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