Claudette was arrested at the age of 15, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to yield her...
Civil Rights
To foreigners, he was a fellow traveler who recognized the plight of the oppressed. Introduction A leading...
There are signals that certain civil liberties are in peril. Since the turn of the New Year,...
The more that efforts to suppress voting rights in America change, the more they remain the same....
Mary McLeod Bethune founded a college, defied the Klan, advised presidents, and was a fierce warrior for...
In their last days, the suffragist pioneers looked back and left us their story in letters. “It...
Lela Mae and the others were unwitting pawns in a segregationist game. Introduction After three days on...
Habeas corpus can constitutionally be suspended – the question is by whom, Congress or the President? By...
Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the...
“Congress shall make no law . . . ” The words are plain, blunt and unequivocal —...
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...
History and civil rights are intertwined at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field in...
The similarities between the effigies of James Meredith and the thousands of black bodies hanged and burned...
How the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment is being remembered and how, for decades, it was not....
Photographs documenting pivotal events in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. Overview This exhibition...
We need a historical understanding of how lynching discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”...
Art historian Renée Ater reflects on how pain and reconciliation coexist at the Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery...
He considered it the most democratic of arts and a crucial aid in the quest to end...
Political extremism seems to have spread to both sides of the Atlantic. By Dr. Jon X. Eguia...
“Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and...
Embed from Getty Images By Lucas Johnson / 04.05.2018 International Coordinator International Fellowship of Reconciliation In the...