Ed King, 89, Scarred Veteran of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Struggle, Dies

A minister disfigured in an attack on his life, he became what one historian called “the most visible white activist in the ...

5 ways Black Americans’ civil rights victories have changed life for everyone in the U.S.

Cardi B recently celebrated how the progress that Black Americans have fought for continues to shape immigrant life in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Excluded at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height Went on to Become the ‘Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement.’ See How She Built a Movement with Women at the Center.

As one of the only women planning the March on Washington, Dorothy Height organized the logistics, mobilized the crowds, and was never given the microphone. What she built in response helped shape the ...

Civil rights sites, events, leaders in MS that shaped American history

Heading out to learn Mississippi this summer? This is a list of state landmarks that shaped the Black civil rights movement ...
HUB

In 'Before the Movement,' historian Dylan C. Penningroth finds lost legacies

For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...
Los Angeles Times

Civil rights era changed how Black Americans see themselves

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Newsweek

We Need a New Civil Rights Movement, Built on Love | Opinion

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As I woke on the day after Donald Trump's election back to the White ...
Forbes

Tom Ricks: What The Civil Rights Movement Teaches Us About Strategy

A group of African American anti-segregation demonstrators run for safety as they are sprayed with high-pressure water from fire hoses during a civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama. The Civil ...
Chronicle

Remembering the Civil Rights Movement

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

This top senior tour company just unveiled 2 new Civil Rights trips

The tour company Road Scholar launched two new U.S. Civil Rights Movement trips for 2027, timed to the 10th anniversary of its original program.
Mises InstituteOpinion

Consolidating Federal Power under the Civil Rights Act 1957

Most readers are familiar with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They are less familiar with the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
NPR

Veterans of the civil rights movement of the 1960s see similarities today

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968. Many Americans ...