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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.
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.
The life and work of W. E. B. Du Bois, writer, educator, and chronicler of Black life in America.
White people raged against school busing in Louisville, KY (September 1975)
How Autherine Lucy, Charlayne Hunter, and Vivian Malone Desegregated Higher Education in the American South
Neither wind nor rain could stop a band of Ohio mothers from securing the education their children deserved.