Civil Rights

civil-rights

The NAACP, founded in 1909, is the United States’ oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its core mission is to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equa...

civil-rights

Civil rights in 1959 unfolded amid continued racial segregation and emerging grassroots activism in the United States. The year followed the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision...

Culture & Society

Across American and global culture, the Black history anthem refers to songs that articulate the sorrow, resilience, and aspiration of Black life. These works function as both a...

Biography & History

Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights leader, author, and activist who expanded the struggle for racial equality into campaigns for workers’ rights, peace, and LGBTQ...

history-politics

The 20th century was defined by large-scale movements that reshaped politics, culture, technology, and everyday life. These movements emerged in response to industrialization, w...

history

The Selma March leaders were a mix of local organizers, clergy, students, and national civil rights organizers who helped turn local voting rights struggles into national moment...

history

Claudette Colvin was a fifteen-year-old student in Montgomery, Alabama, who on March 2, 1955, refused to surrender her bus seat to a White passenger and was arrested. Her act of...

Celebrity Profiles

Ruby Bridges is famous for becoming the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the American South. In 1960, at age six, she walked past an...

literature-history

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in serialized form in 1851–1852. The book depicts the bru...

Society and Culture

Black church burnings refer to the deliberate fire-setting of African American churches, a phenomenon rooted in racial animus, resistance to Black community autonomy, and effort...