Civil Rights Movement - AAIHS

HBCUs and the Red Scare

In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Canaan, Dim and Far:

Looking nationally at the American landscape, there are few places that present clear opportunities to talk about history. Legal protections

Gregory Ellison’s recently published edited volume on Howard Thurman explores the varied roles that the theologian, mystic, professor, and preacher

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,