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Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
by Danny Lyon via New York Review of Books on January 10, 2018

A White Mother Went to Alabama to Fight for Civil Rights. The Klan Killed Her for It.

What motivated Viola Liuzzo to take up the cause of justice hundreds of miles from her home?
by Donna Britt via Washington Post on December 15, 2017

What the Civil Rights Movement Has to Do With Denim

The history of blue jeans has been whitewashed.
by Marlen Komar via Racked on October 30, 2017
Reagan signing the bill establishing Martin Luther King Day.

The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.
by Jeanne Theoharis, Jeremy Scahill via The Intercept on October 8, 2017

SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

In 1966, Atlanta Project members wrote a paper on the future of white liberals in the civil rights movement.
by Ashley D. Farmer via Black Perspectives on September 12, 2017

When Nina Simone Sang What Everyone Was Thinking

“Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.
by Tom Maxwell via Longreads on April 20, 2017
Lyndon Johnson looking unimpressed with what Martin Luther King Jr. is saying.

Feeling Versus Fact: Reconciling Ava DuVernay’s Retelling of Selma

“There has never been an honest movie about the civil rights movement,” says civil rights leader Julian Bond.
by Daniel Judt via The Politic on March 28, 2015
Photos of the March on Washington.

The Struggle in Black and White: Activist Photographers Who Fought for Civil Rights

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on October 7, 2014

Present Tense, Future Perfect: Protest and Progress at the 1964 World's Fair

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.
by Erin Pineda via The Appendix on September 2, 2014

Activism in the US

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.
via Digital Public Library of America on April 1, 2013

SNCC Digital Gateway

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.
by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee via SNCC Digital Gateway on January 1, 2013

Restarting the Civil Rights Movement

Is there still a civil rights movement?
by E. R. Shipp via The Root on December 19, 2010

Their Own Talking

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.
by David P. Cline, Septima Poinsette Clark, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Eugene P. Walker, Katherine Mellon Charron via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2010
Black marchers picket in front of the White House to ask FDR to free the Scottsboro boys.

How 'Communism' Brought Racial Equality to the South

The Communist Party fought for racial equality in the South, specifically Alabama, where segregation was most oppressive.
by Robin D. G. Kelley, Michel Martin via NPR on February 16, 2010
John Lewis

John Lewis's American Odyssey

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.
by Sean Wilentz via The New Republic on July 1, 1996

The Selma March

On the trail to Montgomery.
by Renata Adler via The New Yorker on April 10, 1965
Photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into microphones.

Let Justice Roll Down

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Nation on March 16, 1965
Police turn fire hoses on nonviolent youth civil rights demonstrators in Alabama.

Minnesota Had Its Birmingham Moment

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it—and it’s working.
by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on January 19, 2026
Police officer looking at Viola Liuzzo’s car after the march from Selma to Montgomery.

From Selma to Minneapolis

On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on January 19, 2026
Hubert H. Humphrey, shakes hands with Martin Luther King, Jr., as Coretta Scott King looks on.

Don’t Overlook Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, and jobs.
by Matt Delmont, Nick Hilden via Jacobin on January 19, 2026
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) laughing with guns.

Remembering Imam Jamil al-Amin

How the modern Left can carry his radical legacy forward.
by Tea Troutman, Da'Shaun Harrison via Scalawag on December 15, 2025
Black men living in a shanty during the Pullman Car strike.

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin on December 6, 2025
Outline of a police face with a bunch of faces within the image.

How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups

Efforts to surveil and undermine activists went far beyond infamous operations such as Cointelpro.
by Piper French via The New Republic on December 1, 2025
Two National Guard soldiers in Montgomery, Alabama.

Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy

Federal agents have long harassed immigrants and Black and brown people in cities, but something dangerous is changing behind the scenes.
by Elizabeth Hinton, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via Hammer & Hope on November 1, 2025
Graph of mentions of threats to democracy over time.

In Pursuit of Democracy

Analyzing every mention of 'democracy' in the Congressional Record.
by Alvin Chang via The Pudding on November 1, 2025
John Lewis.

You Must Do Something

Tracing John Lewis’s lifelong fight for democracy and inclusion.
by Randall Kennedy via London Review of Books on October 17, 2025
Fifteen year old Walter Gadsden being attacked by police dogs during the civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama
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Sanitizing the Civil Rights Movement

Contrary to the story being told in textbooks, media, and museums, the police were not neutral bystanders.
by Joshua Clark Davis via HNN on October 14, 2025
Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph.

How Mamdani’s Predecessors Built Democratic Socialism

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin’s Freedom Budget is the key to understanding the appeal of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor.
by Harold Meyerson via The American Prospect on October 2, 2025
A collage featuring Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King Jr., and Africa.

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.
by Lovia Gyarkye via The New Republic on September 25, 2025
James Baldwin by Joe Ciardiello.

James Baldwin’s Radical Politics of Love

The radical lives of James Baldwin.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on September 9, 2025
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