civil rights movement

Odetta’s artistry was a weapon in the Civil Rights struggle, and was crucial to the era’s politics.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.

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

The history of blue jeans has been whitewashed.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

In 1966, Atlanta Project members wrote a paper on the future of white liberals in the civil rights movement.

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

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.

Is there still a civil rights movement?

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

The Communist Party fought for racial equality in the South, specifically Alabama, where segregation was most oppressive.

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.

On the trail to Montgomery.

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."