Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement.

The common picture we get of the US South is one of resolute conservatism. But the region has a radical history, too.

What my father saw in Mississippi.

A new book traces the tactics of groundbreaking lawyer Constance Baker Motley amid pivotal protests in Birmingham.

The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Recently unearthed surveillance documents show how the FBI tried to destroy the Poor People’s Movement.

According to the recent discoveries, civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton, and King had a close romantic relationship.

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.

MLK was a master television producer, but the networks had a narrow view of what the black struggle for equality could look like.

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.

On the trail to Montgomery.

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.

A survey of the New Orleans paper from 1837 to 1914 shows reporters and editors frequent used the racial slur to trivialize Black people in news and commentary.

We should find inspiration in their goals today.

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.