“The Birth of a New Nation”
1957
Read the sermon Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered after his visit to an independent Ghana.
Breakdancing at the Olympic Games
2024
See an example of breakdancing in performance at the Paris summer games.
“African Americans Going South, 1995–2000”
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize a phase of Black migration at the end of the twentieth century.
March on Washington Organizing Document
1963
Read instructions for a group of medical professionals ahead of the March on Washington.
Nonviolent Resistance and Civil Rights Activism
with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Learn more about the impact of civil rights organizations on securing civil rights legislation and growing grassroots power.
Naturally ’68 at the Apollo Theater
ca. 1968
View a photograph from a key convergence of artists and models amid the Black is Beautiful movement.
The Civil Rights Movement
by Taylor Branch
Read an essay taking a bird's-eye view of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
by James T. Patterson
Read an overview of the landmark moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century.
A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by James Oliver Horton
Read about the historical context for the formation of the modern civil rights movement and leadership.
Different Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
by Anthony J. Badger
Read about the different ways historians have challenged the dominant narrative of the Civil Rights movement since the 1960s.
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.
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.
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