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 ...

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 ...

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s first Black lieutenant governor and the GOP front-runner for the 2024 gubernatorial race, repeatedly lambasted the “so-called” 1960s Civil ...

This deeply altered meaning of what we know, or think we know, as a simple, self-evident term has major implications for African-American history in the century prior to the modern civil-rights era.

The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the University of Texas at Austin professor argues ...

The Civil Rights Movement began the day Black people stepped foot on American soil. 9. Marching was an acceptable form of protest. Partly because of how our education system sugarcoats the past, ...