Diasporic Solidarity and the Cuban Revolution
with Danielle Pilar Clealand
Learn more about the African American community’s response to the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s and 1960s.
Black and Latino Solidarity Movements
with Danielle Pilar Clealand
Learn more about Chicano, Puerto Rican, and other solidarity movements and their relation to the Black freedom struggle.
Building the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School
1965–1966
View early documents from a center for the Black Arts movement in Harlem, founded by the poet LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka).
The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
with Peniel Joseph
Dive into the lives and work of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture
with Lonnie Bunch
Learn about the significance and creation of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The March on Washington
with Bryson Bruce, Jermain Corbin, and Sandra Trenholm
Explore archival materials related to the March on Washington and the ensuing press coverage.
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 Civil Rights Act and the Pursuit of Greater Freedom
by Charles W. McKinney
Read about civil rights protests in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina, in the 1960s.
The Heart and Soul of Fannie Lou Hamer
by Earnest N. Bracey
Read about the life and advocacy about Civil Rights leader and National Women’s Political Caucus cofounder Fannie Lou Hamer.
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.
Jackie Robinson
with Jason Butler, Taína Quiñones, and Sandra Trenholm
Explore a comic book about Jackie Robinson’s rookie year and letters written by Richard Nixon and Robert Kennedy to Jackie Robinson about the Civil Rights Movement.
Ten Ways to Teach Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis and Say Burgin
Read about ten common misconceptions about Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks.
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