Civil Rights Movement - AAIHS

Joyce Ladner and SNCC

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took

In the summer of 1961, Black people from Los Angeles and their allies volunteered to travel south and take part

There are many names synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, but there are countless lesser-known individuals who played a critical

Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,