This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across races. Instead, history followed a disappointing and familiar pattern. The ...

NMAF copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. In "crisp prose" (The New York Times) and novelistic detail Saying It Loud tells the story of how the Black Power phenomenon began ...

On Feb. 1, 1960, the country was stunned by the bravery of four black freshmen from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, in Greensboro, who quietly entered a Woolworth’s Department ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

Preface : A dream diluted and distorted -- THE HISTORIES WE GET. Introduction : The political uses and misuses of civil rights history and memorialization in the present -- THE HISTORIES WE NEED. The ...

Memphis soul music became the “soundtrack of the modern Civil Rights Movement" as the city served as a bridge between the South and North.