
Nina Simone’s Life in Music and Activism
The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era

The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era

How Paul Robeson sang to 35,000 Canadians without crossing the border

CORE’s Freedom Rides solidified its centrality to desegregation efforts during the Civil Rights Movement

Despite systemic racism, Black soldiers forced their way into parachute training and took one major step toward integration.

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.