Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

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For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...

Georgia Stories. Lester Maddox, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Battles Over Desegregation in Georgia. Special \| 6m 54s Video ...

A group of African American anti-segregation demonstrators run for safety as they are sprayed with high-pressure water from fire hoses during a civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama. The Civil ...

In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka journeys through the Civil Rights Movement and the longer Black freedom struggle that made it possible.

A new documentary chronicles the youth who took part in Tuscaloosa’s civil rights movement and their role in desegregating the city.

Long origins of the short civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / Steven F. Lawson -- Hollywood, the NAACP, and the cultural politics of the early civil rights movement / Justin T. Lorts -- The Young Women ...

Three of the four US presidents during the first two decades of the post-World War II Civil Rights Movement were from the south or southwest. They’d grown up white in segregated communities, embedded ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...