“Congress shall make no law . . . ” The words are plain, blunt and unequivocal —...
Civil Rights
The counterculture of the 1960s was not perfect, yet it provided a strong alternative to the dominant...
New York’s Union Square is an important site in American labor history. One scholar’s research illustrates the...
Exploring relationships between the Great Migration and the civil rights struggle in northern cities and, especially, Chicago...
Photographs documenting pivotal events in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. Overview This exhibition...
After the attack by the Japanese Empire on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, American attitudes towards...
Howard Thurman, a mentor to MLK, first met Gandhi during a visit to India in 1936. He...
Political extremism seems to have spread to both sides of the Atlantic. By Dr. Jon X. Eguia...
Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. The first picket line – College day in...
Public Domain Kochiyama was one of the most prominent Asian American activists of the 20th century. By...
Lunch Counter Sit-in, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960 / Library of Congress, Public Domain On February 1, 1960,...
In the American South, local television news coverage had immediate and significant effects on knowledge and perception...
Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square in 1908 / Public Domain History is messy. And...
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson,...
By Dr. Katherine Mellon Charron Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Introduction Segregation contradicts what...
March on Washington, August 28, 1963 / United States Information Agency via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jenice...
Embed from Getty Images By Lucas Johnson / 04.05.2018 International Coordinator International Fellowship of Reconciliation In the...
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream – which alternated between shattered and hopeful – can be traced back...
Linda Brown Smith, right, and her two children in their Topeka, KS home 1974. AP While Linda Brown...
Daguerreotype of John Brown, by John Bowles, c.1856 / Boston Athenaeum via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Christopher H....
Disability activism — Americans advocating for policies that are in the best interest of those living with...
By Dr. Kurt Von Daacke Professor of History and Assistant Dean University of Virginia Between June 19...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Civil Liberties and the Bill...
The 8th Quinquennial Council Meeting of the ICW in Vienna / Public Domain By Dr. Leila J....
This group portrait monument to the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement, which won women the right...
“There needs to be a new conversation about racism, in specific, and the system of white male...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , chats with African-Americans during a door-to-door campaign in 1964. AP Photo/JAB By...
Zoot suit wearing pachucos detained by the police, ca. 1942 This June marks the 74th anniversary of...
“By even considering this discriminatory order he has broken his promise to be a president for all...
Photograph of Emerson in later life / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Phyllis Cole and Dr. Wesley...