The Rise of the Student Sit-In Movement
The Civil Rights Movement owes much to the students who boldly sat down at segregated lunch counters
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The Civil Rights Movement owes much to the students who boldly sat down at segregated lunch counters
Black children played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement
An Easter Sermon with Dr. Benjamin E. Mays at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC
Galvanized by new electoral laws after the Civil War, thousands of Black men ran for public office both locally and nationally.
Josiah T. Walls was one of them.
The tumultuous days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The struggle of university students to build Black Studies on campus, in their communities, and throughout the nation.
What constitutes terrorism? How the Philadelphia police turned a neighborhood to ashes and the desecration of the remains of the dead that followed.
The Fight to Desegregate Savannah Beach
White people raged against school busing in Louisville, KY (September 1975)
How Black Olympians turned a 1968 Olympics Cold War triumph into a momentous Black protest symbol
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