Infographic: From the Civil Rights Era to the Present. Although our nation has made great progress since the civil rights era, the struggle for economic opportunity and equality in America continues.

New Civil Rights Movement reader Sean Lind emailed this to us. It’s his Occupy Wall Street infographic detailing ten top tens of the Occupy Movement. It’s quite impressive, actually. What do you think ...

The answer to these questions, it turns out, depends a lot on what you mean when you say civil rights era.Since the publication of an influential book by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard in ...

Welcome to the new civil rights era August 28, 2020 Mass of demonstrators leave the Washington Monument, background, for the March on Washington parade to the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday is 30 years old Monday, but the passion and reach of the famed pastor, Nobelist and leader of the African-American civil rights movement dates back to his ...

They were sentenced to 30 days on a chain gang. In 1961, the “jail-no-bail” movement cost no money and helped highlight how much Black people were willing to sacrifice for equal rights.

Lectures examining the Civil Rights Movement from Brown v. Board of Education to the civil and human rights initiatives today. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) refers to reform movements ...

It claims photographers made photos during the civil rights era in color but they were purposefully shown in black-and-white to make them appear older. The post has amassed almost 60,000 retweets ...

Most Americans support teaching a thorough history of the civil rights movement and appreciate the historical significance of the era. But few can name pivotal figures or moments apart from Martin ...

When you think of the civil rights movement in the United States, that conjures up images of members of stigmatized groups fighting for equal rights: from African-Americans in the 1950s to women ...