Apr 04 Watch 5:56 50 years on, Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy lives out loud By PBS News Hour On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- in Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking sanitation workers -- was shot to death on a hotel balcony. What followed was a national reckoning and the greatest wave of social… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 6:19 Photos show undeniable history of the civil rights movement By PBS News Hour A new photo exhibit captures a crucial period in the civil rights movement through the work of nine photographers. Special correspondent David C. Barnett of WVIZ/PBS Ideastream reports from the Maltz Museum in Cleveland. Continue watching
Nov 22 Watch 6:01 For black Americans, era since civil rights movement brought success and vulnerability By PBS News Hour It’s the best of times and worst of times for black Americans, says Henry Louis Gates Jr. He joins Jeffrey Brown to preview the PBS mini-series “Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise,” and discuss both great gains and… Continue watching
Apr 29 Column: This little known site is the birthplace of the student civil rights movement By Jeff Feinstein The Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia, recently commemorated the 65th anniversary of the 1951 Moton Student Strike. A few years after the strike, Moton High provided a majority of the plaintiffs in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school… Continue reading
Sep 20 Obama: Women made the civil rights movement happen By Darlene Superville, Associated Press To President Barack Obama, women of the civil rights movement were "the thinkers and the doers" whose toil and sacrifice benefited everyone in the country. Continue reading
Jul 13 How newspapers reviewed ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ in 1960 By Joshua Barajas At a time when Jim Crow laws still gripped the U.S. southern states and the civil rights movement was beginning to hit its stride, Harper Lee was quietly developing two books that told the story of racism in the South. Continue reading
Mar 07 Obama signs law honoring civil rights marchers By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Participants in three civil rights marches a half century ago are being recognized with Congressional Gold Medals, the highest honor awarded by Congress. Continue reading
Feb 04 Rosa Parks’ letters and photographs reveal a lifelong warrior for civil rights By Ruth Tam The Rosa Parks Collection of 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs are available to researchers at the Library of Congress on Feb. 4 and a portion will be open to the public on March 2. Continue reading
Aug 08 When Mississippi schools wouldn’t integrate, Freedom Schools opened doors By April Brown, Mike Fritz In the summer of 1964, hundreds of out-of-state volunteers joined local activists in Mississippi to increase voter registration among disenfranchised African Americans in the state. Many of the volunteers worked in the dozens of newly created Freedom Schools. Herbert Randall,… Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch 50 years later, ‘Freedom Summer’ leaders recall pivotal fight against discrimination By PBS News Hour A new documentary “Freedom Summer” looks back to the deeply segregated Mississippi of 1964, and the young people who came from around the country to lend a hand in the struggle against racism. For a look back at the moment,… Continue watching