A related movement, the white Citizens' Councils ... becoming the largest American civil rights group with numerous grassroots branches. Over the years, the NAACP focused on desegregating schools ...

Socialists in the US are more likely to be experts on the Russian Revolution than the American civil rights movement. That’s a mistake: this homegrown revolution is a strategic guidebook for ...

The Disability Rights Movement, organized in the 1970s, has been similar to other movements in important ways. Attitudes ...

Far-right extremists have a plan to dismantle many civil rights protections that have advanced equality in America over the ...

students establish to what extent their own understanding of African American history has been shaped by the classic narrative culminating in the civil rights movement. In the Learning Activities ...

The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in ...

A prominent African American church in Alabama that was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement has been honored with an ...

Did the civil rights movement impact the development of the American state? Despite extensive accounts of civil rights mobilization and narratives of state building, there has been surprisingly little ...

Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, ...

Segal Professor of American Social Thought Emerita and author of 12 books ... She acknowledged that despite the gains of the 1964 civil rights movement, Black people did not achieve full equality, ...

Lawson remained a lifelong advocate for civil rights, immigrant rights ... was a key leader in the American labor movement, best known for coining the iconic slogan "I Am A Man" during the ...