The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama
with Claude A. Clegg III
Take a deep dive into the political context of the Obama presidency.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
with Jeanne Theoharis
Learn how examining Rosa Parks’s life challenges perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
with Keisha N. Blain
Explore Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and civil rights organizing career.
Food Deserts and the Rise of Fast Food
with Marcia Chatelain
Learn about the movement of fast food into predominantly African American neighborhoods and its connection to the larger issue of food deserts.
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
with Jeanne Theoharis
Watch author Jeanne Theoharis discuss Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation in the North.
The Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
with Matthew F. Delmont
Learn more about the history of World War II from the perspective of African Americans.
The Life and Death of Roger Romine: A Tuskegee Airman Gone Too Soon
by Lisa Bratton
Read about the life of Robert Romine, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, an elite but segregated branch of the military in World War II.
Constance Baker Motley: A Trailblazer in the Legal Profession
by Gary L. Ford, Jr.
Read about the life and work of Constance Baker Motley, the only woman who argued desegregation cases in courts in the racially segregated South during the Civil Rights Movement from 1946 to 1964.
Breakdancers in New York
1984
View an example of b-boy culture from 1980s New York.
“Les Fétiches”
1938
View Loïs Mailou Jones’s painting, which brought Négritude from literature to art.
“Women in the Movement”
1964
Read this anonymously written memo calling out gender inequality and tokenism in the SNCC.
Lobby card for “The Betrayal”
1948
View a lobby card from Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux’s last film.
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