The spiral group : defining African American art during the civil rights movement / Sharon Pruitt -- Jazz musicians in Europe : 1919 to 1945 / Larry Ross -- Black power, Chicago politics, and social ...

A Victorville student won the 11th Annual Civil Rights Memorial Essay Contest. Fifth-grader Ashley Barahona wrote her winning essay on civil rights leader Ella Baker. Ashley Barahona from Galileo ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is expanding its exploration of the country’s racial dynamics despite a surge of government resistance. The papers of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.