The Life of Eldridge Cleaver
Author of Soul on Ice and one of the most recognized activists for Black internationalism, Eldridge Cleaver went from militance to obscurity.
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.
The tumultuous days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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
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