John Lewis

Two new biographies enhance our knowledge of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights hero.

As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”

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

Is this America?

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.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.

America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

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

The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

Since George Floyd’s murder, some white allies seek ways to fight racial inequality. Detroit’s 1960s "racially parallel organizing" offers insights.

Reconsidering Earl Warren's place in U.S. history.

Martin Luther King’s words are available publicly — for a price.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down.