civil rights movement

Media coverage of the civil rights movement is a reminder that the deification of King has skewed public memory.

How political misappropriations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy fuel right-wing movements.

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

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

On upending the accepted narrative of the movement.

We should find inspiration in their goals today.

The Civil Rights Movement was a radical struggle against Jim Crow tyranny whose early foot soldiers were Communists and labor militants.

What my father saw in Mississippi.

She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

Winfred Rembert on protesting in the Jim Crow South and getting arrested.

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

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fates of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

Why the Exodus must remain central to the African American church.

Led by A. Philip Randolph, Black Pullman porters secured dignity on the job — and laid the foundation for the modern Civil Rights Movement.

How James Baldwin confronted America's most exceptional lie.

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.

In a sermon two weeks after MLK's funeral, Walker urged young seminarians to be hopeful and take action for making change happen. His sermon has valuable lessons today.