Josiah T. Walls, Black Congressman from Florida
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.
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
The keynote address Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave at Fisk University in 1964 drew crowds from all over the city, including some of the great Civil Rights icons in American history
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
What do Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) have in common? The internationalism of American civil rights activism.
A July 1964 protest at the United Nations headquarters in New York City began after the murder of 15-year-old African American James Powell by Thomas Gilligan, a white, off-duty police officer.
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