By Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina University Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders,…
Tag: Civil Rights Movement
Nat King Cole’s often overlooked role in the Civil Rights Movement
By Donna M. Cox, University of Dayton Six decades after Nat King Cole’s death in 1965, his music is still…
White and Black activists worked strategically in parallel in Detroit 50 years ago, fighting for civil rights
Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some white people have been wondering how they can work with Black…
Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ’60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s white Christian nationalism
By Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana Fifty-eight years ago in the summer of 1966, a group of Black church…
Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society
By Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst Signed into law nearly 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed…
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice
By Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the…
How Black teachers lost when civil rights won in Brown v. Board
By Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, University of North Dakota; Andrea Guiden Pittman, American University; Andrene J. Castro, Virginia Commonwealth University, and…
Monroe Dodd discusses co-authoring new book on iconic civil rights attorney Alvin Sykes
Author and veteran journalist Monroe Dodd has spent his career documenting the fascinating, and sometimes lesser-known, history of Kansas. Dodd…
Medgar Evers, civil rights icon, posthumously awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Slain civil rights activist and icon Medgar Evers was one of 19 people who were honored with the Presidential Medal…
Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains − just look at MLK’s example
By Kendra Thomas, Hope College On April 3, 1968, standing before a crowded church, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
