John Lewis at a Prayer Demonstration
1962
View a photograph of members of the SNCC kneeling in prayer in Cairo, Illinois.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos during XIX Summer Olympics
1968
View a key example of sports as a platform for the Black freedom struggle.
Marcus Garvey in Harlem
1924
View another photograph of Garvey and an entourage, as captured by James Van Der Zee.
“Nonviolence and Racial Justice”
1957
Explore Martin Luther King’s philosophy toward nonviolent resistance.
Why We Can’t Wait
1964
Read an excerpt from Martin Luther King’s 1964 book, focused on segregation in Birmingham prior to SCLC’s campaign there.
“Little Rock”
1958
Read this poem written by Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén after the Little Rock Crisis.
“Boycott Cripples City Schools”
1964
Read an article about a student protest led by 360,000 Black and Puerto Rican students in New York City.
“Discourse on Colonialism”
1972
Read the preamble to Aimé Césaire’s treatise, a foundational document of the Négritude movement.
The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program
1966
Read the Black Panther Party’s guiding manifesto.
“Original Faubus Fables”
1960
Hear Charles Mingus's musical retort to Arkansas Governor and segregationist Orval Faubus.
Emigration, Anti-Emigration, and Transatlantic Abolitionism
with Nemata Blyden
Learn more about the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act, the Dred Scott decision, and the Civil War on emigration.
“The Combahee River Collective Statement”
1977
Read this foundational document of Black feminism.
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