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Despite Anita Hill accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, the controversy surrounding him now is mainly about his politics. Yet, the story of Justice Thomas exemplifies a longstanding irony of racial uplift efforts: the elevation of Black figures who perpetuate the silencing or mistreatment of Black women.
Students at Jackson State stood together in 1970 to display their power and resilience after being attacked by law enforcement.
Photos from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March often downplay the transformative role of community-rooted power in securing voting rights for all Americans.
Ledger Smith roller skated 700 miles from Chicago to Washington, D.C. in August 1963 to join the March on Washington. His journey, supported by the NAACP, drew national media attention and was an act of resistance against segregation and racism.
Mose Wright’s 1955 testimony at the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers demonstrates that fear did not hinder Black resistance during the civil rights era.
Preaching peace, yet struck down by violence, the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reshaped America’s urban spaces and fundamentally changed how the country remembers this civil rights leader.
In one of the most iconic and celebrated heavyweight fights, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman clashed in Zaire in 1974.
The everyday lives and struggles of Black women in Atlanta reveal the roots of their activism.
Author of Soul on Ice and one of the most recognized activists for Black internationalism, Eldridge Cleaver went from militance to obscurity.
A photograph of Mahalia Jackson in 1964 offers a window on the role of music in the civil rights movement.