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Photos from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March often downplay the transformative role of community-rooted power in securing voting rights for all Americans.
Ledger Smith roller skated 700 miles from Chicago to Washington, D.C. in August 1963 to join the March on Washington. His journey, supported by the NAACP, drew national media attention and was an act of resistance against segregation and racism.
Assata Shakur is a lasting symbol of resistance, political commitment, and global struggles for liberation.
Years after breaking the color barriers that surrounded baseball and tennis, Jackie Robinson and Althea Gibson changed yet another sport.
Vivian Malone and James Hood calmly faced reporters as they prepared to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963, symbolizing the determination of Black youth in the face of those who were staunchly opposed to desegregation.
Mose Wright’s 1955 testimony at the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers demonstrates that fear did not hinder Black resistance during the civil rights era.
Before beginning his Hall of Fame baseball career, Jackie Robinson served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army, enduring a court martial in pursuit of equal rights for Black soldiers.
Preaching peace, yet struck down by violence, the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reshaped America’s urban spaces and fundamentally changed how the country remembers this civil rights leader.
African Americans were closely involved in the fight against South African apartheid, with cultural icons, legislators, civil rights activists, and athletes all playing their part to call attention to the issue and to ultimately pass sanctions against South Africa.
The everyday lives and struggles of Black women in Atlanta reveal the roots of their activism.