Political Resistance and Engagement Archives - Page 5 of 6

Wade in the Water

The Fight to Desegregate Savannah Beach

Musicians Joseph Witherspoon (fore left), on saxophone, and Alan Clipper Sr (fore right), on trumpet, perform 'We Shall Overcome' after a wreath laying at the African-American Civil War Memorial

At War with Memory

How race has shaped our memory of the Civil War and Emancipation

The Locked Out

Jesse Jackson and the radicalism of 1980s Black presidential politics

American religious and Civil Rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr (1929 – 1968) speaks at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 3, 1964.

King, Nashville, and the Emergence of Nonviolent Direct Action

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

Workers of the World

Black Communists Fought for Jobs and Safety in 1930 Washington, D.C.

American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists and give the Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. The move was a symbolic protest against racism in the United States. Smith, the gold medal winner, and Carlos, the bronze medal winner, were subsequently suspended from their team for their actions.

The Black Fists Protest

How Black Olympians turned a 1968 Olympics Cold War triumph into a momentous Black protest symbol

Don’t Call it a Riot

Los Angeles 1992, policing, and the long history of urban protests in the United States

The Gilligan Case: Police Brutality and Civil Rights in Harlem 1964

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.