Mahalia Jackson and the Music of the Movement
A photograph of Mahalia Jackson in 1964 offers a window on the role of music in the civil rights movement.
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A photograph of Mahalia Jackson in 1964 offers a window on the role of music in the civil rights movement.
Hoping to court Black voters in the 1948 Presidential election, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981, an act that significantly changed the armed forces and the Black experience in America.
For one day in June 1963 Detroit was the center of the civil rights movement.
Some Black soldiers chose not to go home after the war, remaining in North Korea and China—behind the “bamboo curtain”—to escape racism in the United States.
Claude Brown testifies about the urban crisis in 1960s America.
CORE’s Freedom Rides solidified its centrality to desegregation efforts during the Civil Rights Movement
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
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