Selma to Montgomery March

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

On the trail to Montgomery.

He marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., after he witnessed atrocities while liberating Nazi death camps.

What motivated Viola Liuzzo to take up the cause of justice hundreds of miles from her home?

The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.

The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.

The right to vote is under the greatest threat since the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.

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

The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being, Daniel Smith is a flesh-and-blood reminder that slavery wasn't that long ago

African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

Here's what he thinks about national anthem protests.

It has to be renamed, state by state.

“Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.