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Tents at Resurrection City, 1968.

A Place for the Poor: Resurrection City

In 1968, impoverished Americans flocked to DC to live out MLK's final dream: economic equality for all.
by Jenna Goff via Boundary Stones on July 14, 2015
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

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
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Fierce Urgency of Now

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.
via BackStory on August 23, 2013

The Court & the Right to Vote: A Dissent

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.
by John Paul Stevens via New York Review of Books on August 15, 2013
Film still of Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind."

The Mammy Washington Almost Had

In 1923, the U.S. Senate approved a new monument in D.C. "in memory of the faithful slave mammies of the South."
by Tony Horwitz via The Atlantic on May 31, 2013

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
Scabby the Rat

The History of Scabby the Rat

The most visible symbol of a labor movement that isn't dead yet, that is willing to fight, not just make backroom deals.
by Sarah Jaffe, Molly Crabapple via Vice on March 7, 2013

What American Nuns Built

Both the nation and the Church have depended on the energy and expertise of nuns. They’re vanishing. Now what?
by Ruth Graham via Boston Globe on February 24, 2013

Restarting the Civil Rights Movement

Is there still a civil rights movement?
by E. R. Shipp via The Root on December 19, 2010
A man at a Tea Party rally in 2010, dressed in colonial clothes and standing in front of a Don't Treat On Me flag with his fist raised.
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Teed Off

Did the 2010 Tea Party Movement really have anything in common with 1773? What did the history of populism suggest about the Tea Party's future?
via BackStory on May 21, 2010
The large Wide Awake parade in lower Manhattan.

“Young Men for War”: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln’s 1860 Presidential Campaign

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.
by Jon Grinspan via Journal of American History on September 1, 2009

Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court

In 2005, Howard Zinn explained why it was naive to depend on the Court to defend the rights of marginalized Americans.
by Howard Zinn via The Progressive on October 21, 2005
Caricature of Martin Luther King's head

The House of the Prophet

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on April 11, 2002
Martin Luther King, Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, 1958.

Martin Luther King Was a Law Breaker

On the second anniversary of MLK's assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience.
by Austin McCoy, Martin Sostre via Martin Sostre Institute on April 1, 1970
Alcatraz Island prison sign painted over to welcome Indians to Indian land.
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The Art of Stealing Human Rights

Native peoples face similar struggles with the federal governments in the U.S. and in Canada.
by Radio Free Alcatraz via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 3, 1970
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call For a Poor People’s Campaign

In early 1968, the activist planned a massive protest in the nation’s capital.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on March 20, 1968
Man interviewing a group of people on the street.
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James Baldwin Comments on the Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission was credited with exposing systemic racism that inspired resistance in Black communities. James Baldwin argued that it stated the obvious.
by Public Broadcast Laboratory via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 3, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.

The Crisis in America’s Cities

Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on August 15, 1967
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
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Commentary of a Black Southern Bus Rider

Rosa Parks discusses her refusal to give up a seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
by Rosa Parks, KPFA via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on December 20, 1962
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
A flyer for a Pete Seeger concert in Pittsburgh.

Pete Seeger in Pittsburgh Town

In April 1962, Pete Seeger was abruptly banned from performing a scheduled set for children in Pittsburgh. The surrounding debate says a lot about the city.
by Jodie Childers via Pittsburgh Review of Books on December 15, 2025
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Jimmy Carter

The US Propped Up the Shah’s Dictatorship to the Bitter End

The shah of Iran faced a secular opposition that wanted to restore constitutional government.
by Afshin Matin-Asgari via Jacobin on December 3, 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

Surrealism Against Fascism

A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us in a new age of genocide?
by Naomi Klein via Equator on November 26, 2025
Demonstrators at an anti-Vietnam War protest held at Bronx Science High School in New York in April 1968.

New Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Teens During the 1960s

As high school students embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences.
by Aaron G. Fountain via Smithsonian Magazine on November 21, 2025
Bird's-eye view of Atlanta Braves baseball stadium.

You Can’t Eat Home Runs: Hunger and Games on Atlanta’s Southside

Atlanta’s 1966 Summerhill Rebellion erupted after police shot Harold Prather, exposing racism, poverty, and neglect worsened by stadium-led upheaval.
by Clif Stratton via The Metropole on November 4, 2025
Female prisoners at Parchman sewing.

From Chain Gangs to the “Modern” Southern Prison

Those who sought to modernize and reform prisons have expanded them in the process and more permanently entrenched a racialized carceral state.
by Kirstine Taylor via Inquest on October 29, 2025
Illustration by Matt Huynh.

What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on October 10, 2025
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