The new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” got its start about a decade ago with an oral history ...

First of all, in name: Julie Buckner Armstrong, an English professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa who has written several books about the Civil Rights Movement, said it’s not fair ...

Withers gave information to the bureau about the civil rights movement and its leaders. Does that tarnish the legacy or the truth of these photos? Diaz doesn’t think so. He says art is there to ...

When we think of the Civil Rights Movement, opulent parties are probably not the first thing that come to mind. But it turns out, they were a big part of the fight for racial justice ...

Lawson was an apostle of nonviolent protest — and close adviser to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights ...

The compilation included the work of Ernest Withers, who took more than a million photos of the Civil Rights Movement and music scenes of the 1960s, and Danny Lyon, who documented the sea of signs ...

Contributing opinion columnist Sheletta Brundidge shares that her and Nekima Levy Armstrong's prominent roles in the boycott ...

American history and culture. On one hand, it still felt like the ‘50s in many parts of the country: crew cuts, corner diners ...

The civil-rights movement is remembered for its stirring rhetoric and sustaining faith, but it also had another trait that’s required for a social movement to succeed: discipline. “Those of us ...

The UC Berkeley professor Dylan C. Penningroth upends this narrative in his book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, which traces the forgotten history of how slaves ...

The exhibition features photos by freelance photographer Art Shay, whose work, ranging from capturing the civil rights movement to taking celebrity and presidential portraits, has appeared in ...

He took many pictures of the Birmingham Campaign and went to Atlanta in 1968 for Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral. Many of those photos still exist as prints and negatives in his family’s ...