History

Celebrate the life of the civil rights icon at the center of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

In this selection from her new book, “History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times,” Berry recounts the civil rights war activists waged under President Ronald Reagan—and it sounds very familiar….

As the Supreme Court considers the future of unions in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, Color of Change’s Rashad Robinson examines how racism conspires to keep workers of color from uniting to reach their full potential.

The Kerner Commission concluded that unrest in cities across the country was the result of unaddressed racial and economic injustice. What has—and hasn’t—changed in the last 50 years?

In his drive to crush advocacy in the Black community, J. Edgar Hoover, surveilled Black bookstores across the country.

The papers and artifacts that Davis sold to the Schlesinger Library include an FBI “Wanted” poster and a diary she kept while on trial. 

The White House Correspondents’ Association barred the Black journalist for decades.

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi History will open this weekend to mark the state’s bicentennial.

Parks’ resistance kicked off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which TV One depicts in the new trailer for “Behind the Movement.”