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## Civil Rights Movement


* ![Inzajeano_Latif_Lincoln_Heights_Cynthia-K-Terry](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52d8349c722a00c2/6988cc69cd1bba0fe670518c/inzajeano_latif_lincoln_heights_cynthia-k-terry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 22, 2017  
## [Hope Amid Despair in One Black Suburb](https://time.com/4760214/lincoln-heights/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Alexandra Genova
* ![nakeya-brown-hair-portrait-1-the-refutation-of-good-hair](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1fe7e20913444e36/6988c40aab6d776a3c6adc3a/nakeya-brown-hair-portrait-1-the-refutation-of-good-hair1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 26, 2017  
## [When Hair Becomes a Site of Resistance](https://time.com/4751380/nakeya-brown/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Alexandra Genova
* ![James Baldwin I Am Not Your Negro.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e2fb536d0e20c9e/6988b89a86f68e13266e3623/i-am-not-your-negro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 3, 2017  
## [Review: _I Am Not Your Negro_ Shows How Far We Only _Think_ We've Come](https://time.com/4657880/review-i-am-not-your-negro-shows-how-far-we-only-think-weve-come/)  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)  
by Stephanie Zacharek
* ![What can the Civil Rights Movement and President Johnson's "Great Society" teach us about legislative action today?](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3e84c464416f8c1/69877a7bf887dc43a9e89933/civil-rights-movement.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 19, 2015  
## [MLK, Civil Rights and _The Fierce Urgency of Now_](https://time.com/3672274/civil-rights-movement-lesson/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by New America
* ![SELMA, from left: Colman Domingo, David Oyelowo, as Martin Luther King Jr., Andre Holland, Stephan James, 2014.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0dba231a7d251b94/69877a7b2dce0189559dd05c/150116_em_selmafreetix.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 18, 2015  
## [The Return of the Protest Song](https://time.com/3672318/protest-song-returns/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by New America  
* ![attends the "Selma" New York Premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on December 14, 2014 in New York City.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94211b24eada16b7/69877a83f887dc1d3de89945/460474016.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 16, 2015  
## [_Selma_ Cast Will March in Alabama to Celebrate MLK Day](https://time.com/3672311/mlk-day-selma-alabama-oprah/)  
[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/)  
by Charlotte Alter
* ![Education Segregation, USA. pic: circa 1957. Little Rock, Arkansas. National Guardsmen, having admitted white children to a school, barr the way to a black student.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26a30662e02aec48/69876e780b72e305676dc944/little-rock.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 12, 2014  
## [The Link Between The Civil Rights Movement and Ferguson](https://time.com/3629866/civil-rights-ferguson-cold-war/)  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
by Justin Worland
* ![Protests Continue in New York After Grand Jury Decision on Eric Garner's case](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdf717c773a74189/69876d1be20a872844a83d3f/459980676.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 8, 2014  
## [It's Now Up to Whites to Dismantle Racism](https://time.com/3620912/ferguson-michael-brown-eric-garner-racism/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by Stephanye Watts
* ![Students Steve Posten, 17, and Jessalyn Gray, 18, wait tensely beside a cab while a crowd of whites taunts them outside Texarkana Junior College, Texarkana, Tex., 1956. Jessalyn eventually asked police to escort them inside. When the police refused, the ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt430dc440bbc6e4e6/69884c6de53abaabf04dd4a3/140909-texarkana-integration-1956-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 8, 2014  
## [How to Fool a Racist Mob: Lesson One](https://time.com/3880890/how-to-fool-a-racist-mob-lesson-1/)  
by Ben Cosgrove
* ![Army MPs guard a Detroit store from looters after wartime race riots in the city, June 1943.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc45f89c7c88373f4/69884a28428a9ec616ccca4c/07_00588186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 18, 2014  
## [Hatred on the Home Front: The Detroit Race Riots During WWII](https://time.com/3880177/detroit-race-riots-1943-photos-from-a-city-in-turmoil-during-wwii/)  
by Ben Cosgrove  
* ![Fifteen-year-old Louis Cousins, Maury High School, Norfolk, Va., 1959.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24f3ade57b278204/69884bcbe20a8742bba8ae81/140512-integrated-schools-20.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 15, 2014  
## [After 'Brown v. Board of Education': Portraits of Integration, Virginia, 1959](https://time.com/3879874/brown-v-board-of-education-photos-of-integration-in-virginia/)  
by Liz Ronk
* ![Will D. Campbell, alone on the Lorraine Motel balcony, gazes out into the night. "This picture was probably made as soon as we got there," Groskinsky told LIFE.com. "When I saw him standing there, alone, I thought it looked as if he was just asking himse](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde4a92a86581bfed/698761a48e06013278457cd1/mlk-assassination-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 20, 2014  
## [The Night MLK Was Murdered: A Photographer's Story](https://time.com/3524581/the-night-mlk-was-murdered-a-photographers-story/)  
by Ben Cosgrove
* ![Martin Luther King Jr. \(seated, at right\) watches the Shirelles perform during the Salute to Freedom benefit concert in Birmingham, Ala., August 5, 1963.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8e3e30b981bc724/69884a8455a859351ba8b671/01_114918157.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 27, 2013  
## [March on Washington: Rare Photos From a Star-Studded Fundraiser, 1963](https://time.com/3877899/march-on-washington-rare-photos-from-a-star-studded-fundraiser-1963/)  
by Liz Ronk
* ![Sarah Jean Collins, Birmingham church bombing survivor, 1963](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45502003310aeae5/69884a9ecd1bba7be16fac2c/68701.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 7, 2013  
## [The Girl Who Lived: Portrait of a Birmingham Church Bombing Survivor, 1963](https://time.com/3877750/16th-street-baptist-church-bombing-victim-sarah-collins-1963/)  
by Liz Ronk
* ![Defendants Roy Bryant, left, and J.W. Milam during their trial for the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5da6b2912c47222e/69884a81e53aba09fc4dd170/14_1223010.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 2, 2013  
## [A Savage Season in Mississippi: The Murder of Emmett Till](https://time.com/3877718/the-murder-of-emmett-till-and-the-sham-trial-that-shocked-the-nation/)  
by Ben Cosgrove

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