Cobb used the Civil Rights Movement as a framework to discuss collective action under the Trump administration.
As the Trump administration dismantles the Education Department, the agency is pulling back on its role policing ...
A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...
The award-winning journalist and historian delivered the University’s 2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, applying historical lessons to present-day challenges and celebrating the power of ordinary ...
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Bernard LaFayette, Civil Rights Strategist Who Helped Pave Way For The Voting Rights Act, Dies At 85
"He was one of the great teachers of nonviolence in our time," Martin Luther King III said of Bernard LaFayette.
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that ...
SELMA, ALABAMA — 7 March, 1965: Scene Bloody Sunday” march, during which civil rights demonstrators attempting to begin a 50 ...
A tribute meant to honor the legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson included an unexpected moment when former President Joe Biden ...
Hosea Williams grew up in Attapulgus before marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and becoming a frontline figure in the civil rights movement.
Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.
At Operation PUSH on Chicago’s South Side, the work of civil rights leader Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. reached millions of viewers through television broadcasts, rallies, and marches. But behind the ...
The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a strategist in the Southern voting rights movement.
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