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It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
by Mark Engler via The Nation on January 17, 2020
Photograph of Julian Bond holding one of his children.

Julian Bond Papers Project

A new digital archive from UVA Carter G. Woodson Institute and Center for Digital Editing explores the late Civil Rights leader’s life, legacy, and writings.
by Deborah McDowell, Laura Baker, James Perla via Carter G. Woodson Institute on September 25, 2019

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.
by Asad Haider via n+1 on January 18, 2019

Baldwin’s Lonely Country

After MLK's assassination, James Baldwin attempted to reconcile the divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
by Ed Pavlic via Boston Review on March 29, 2018

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
Public opinion poll data showing high disapproval of civil rights protests.

Black Lives Matter and America’s Long History of Resisting Civil Rights Protesters

The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.
by Elahe Izadi via Washington Post on April 19, 2016
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
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
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
Antiwar march on October 31, 1970. Marchers holding a banner reading "Chicano Power" and "Remember Reuben Salazar."

Mapping American Social Movements

Interactive maps showing the historical geography of influential American social movements since the late 19th century.
by Civil Rights History Consortium via University of Washington
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
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
A drawing of a variety of social movements protesting.

Peaceable Revolutions

Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.
by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on March 20, 2025
A member of the Michigan National Guard stands at the ready as firemen battle a blaze in Detroit in July 1967.

White and Black Activists Worked Strategically in Parallel in Detroit 50 Years Ago for Civil Rights

Since George Floyd’s murder, some white allies seek ways to fight racial inequality. Detroit’s 1960s "racially parallel organizing" offers insights.
by Say Burgin via The Conversation on December 5, 2024
Mural of Black leaders (from left to right) Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Martin Luther King and Fredrick Douglass

Ella Baker, Pragmatism, and Black Democratic Perfectionism

The great civil rights leader was suspicious of charisma, and she had something else in mind.
by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 24, 2024
A postcard showing five women in colorful dresses playing and singing in Ybor City

Race & Gender in the Latinx South

Two new books make the case that “when and where you are Latino matters.”
by Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez via Southern Spaces on September 10, 2024
1970 Map of the United States Interstate Highway Plan

How Black Activists Have Long Used Mapmaking to Document Culture and Racism in the U.S.

The neglected history of Black mapmaking in America and the creative ways in which Black people have historically used mapping to tell stories.
by Derek H. Alderman, Joshua F. J. Inwood via PBS NewsHour on February 17, 2024
Street art graffiti on the Israeli separation West Bank wall in Bethlehem features a portrait of George Floyd, symbolizing the links between Black American and Palestinian activists.

The Long, Complicated History of Black Solidarity With Palestinians and Jews

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.
by Sam Klug, Fabiola Cineas via Vox on October 17, 2023
An overhead view of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

An Oral History of the March on Washington, 60 Years After MLK’s Dream

The Post interviewed March on Washington participants and voices from younger generations to tell the story of Aug. 28, 1963 and what it means now.
by Clarence Williams via Retropolis on August 25, 2023
American blues singer and guitarist Leadbelly performs for a room full of people, 1940.

Is the History of American Art a History of Failure?

Sara Marcus’s recent book argues that from the Reconstruction to the AIDS era, a distinct aesthetic formed around defeat in the realm of politics.
by Lynne Feeley via The Nation on July 31, 2023
Black Panther Party members demonstrating outside the New York County Criminal Court, April 11, 1969.

The Black Radical Tradition Can Guide Our Struggles Against Oppression

Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.
by Robin D. G. Kelley, Daniel Denvir via Jacobin on July 6, 2023
Black and white photo of Civil Rights protests with crowds picketing.

The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action

We should find inspiration in their goals today.
by Jerome B. Karabel via TIME on June 29, 2023
SCLC leader Wyatt T. Walker and Jackie Robinson tour the ruins of Mount Olive Baptist Church, Sasser, Georgia, September 9th, 1962.

‘A Model Southern Sheriff’: Z.T. Mathews and the 1962 Fight for Voting Rights in Terrell County

A glaring portrait of the human cost of law enforcement officers who claim to be above the law.
by David Kurlander via CAFE on January 26, 2023
Photo collage of black students protesting with locked arms

The Moral Force of the Black University

A 1968 student uprising at the Tuskegee Institute married practical demands with political vision.
by Brian Jones via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 3, 2022
Three Mississippi women, denied the right to go onto the House floor at the opening of the new Congress, stand Jan. 4, 1965, outside the Capitol. From left: Annie Devine, Fannie Lou Hamer and Victoria Gray.
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Remembering Past Harms is a Key First Step for Achieving Social Justice

Mississippi makes a move to confront a shameful episode from the past.
by Keisha N. Blain via Made By History on June 9, 2022
Heather Booth playing guitar for Fannie Lou Hamer.

Why Fannie Lou Hamer Endures

She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.
by Claire Bond Potter via Democracy Journal on March 9, 2022
Third World Women's Alliance member demonstrating in crowd

How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on February 22, 2022
The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children Program in action, New York, 1969. Photo by Bev Grant/Getty Images

The Black Panthers Fed More Hungry Kids Than the State of California

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.
by Suzanne Cope via Aeon on December 10, 2021
Fannie Lou Hamer.

Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s Definition of "Freedom" Still Matters

The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that “you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”
by Keisha N. Blain, Jamil Smith via Vox on October 21, 2021
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