Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

The civil rights activist visited the town just days before his assassination in 1965. The Six Triple Eight tells the story of the only black, all-women US battalion in World War Two. The ...

They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.

Black history is, after all, American ... during the Civil Rights Movement. Murray’s work highlighted parallels between racial and gender discrimination, articulating how Black women were ...

students establish to what extent their own understanding of African American history has been shaped by the classic narrative culminating in the civil rights movement. In the Learning Activities ...

How did the African-American experience in the war, and in the postwar period, influence the civil rights movement? World War I was in many ways the beginning of the 20th-century civil rights movement ...

We Are Also in Bondage Here: Black Women in the Washington Civil Rights Movement Thursday March 13, 2025 at 6 pm via Zoom REGISTER HERE In the 1960s, Freddie Mae Gautier wrote to Martin Luther King Jr ...

(WIAT) — The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches in Alabama that played a big role in the movement.

In 1996, Gordly became the first African American woman to be elected to the Oregon State Senate. She held the position for 13 years. Inspired by her numerous achievements, Dr. Schechter and Dr.