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
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
The tumultuous days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Jesse Jackson and the radicalism of 1980s Black presidential politics
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
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.
How Autherine Lucy, Charlayne Hunter, and Vivian Malone Desegregated Higher Education in the American South
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