Civil Rights

Influential Civil Rights Advocate Juanita Abernathy Dies at 88

Abernathy wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott

Accompanied by motorcycle-mounted police, school buses carrying African American students arrive at formerly all-white South Boston High School on September 12, 1974. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of busing as a mechanism to end racial segregation because black children were still attending segregated schools. White children had been riding school buses for decades, but the idea of using the same mechanism to desegregate public schools triggered violent protests, writes Gloria J. Browne-Marshall.

Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again

Busing, the transporting of public school children to end racial segregatio...

Busing, the transporting of public school children to end racial segregation, was thrust back into national conversations when Senator Kamala Harris criticized Vice President Joe Biden, over his record on it at the first Democratic...

A 1961 photo of Diane Nash and other Freedom Riders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Her Fight for Civil Rights Was Recognized During the March on Washington's Tribute to Women—But She Wasn't Actually There

In the hours before Martin Luther King Jr. would give his famous "I Have a ...

In the hours before Martin Luther King Jr. would give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, six women were invited to stand and be recognized onstage

Jessica Lenahan, center, a domestic violence survivor, and Carol Jenkins, right, of the Equal Rights Amendment Task Force, attend a news conference at the House Triangle on the need to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment on June 6, 2018.

The U.S. Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Equal Rights for Women. Here’s Why

The Equal Rights Amendment has a long history in U.S. Congress. So why did ...

The Equal Rights Amendment has a long history in U.S. Congress. So why did the proposed amendment never get ratified?

San Francisco city workers carry signs as they march during a rally outside the City and County of San Francisco Human Resources office on March 7, 2019, in San Francisco. Hundreds of San Francisco city workers staged a rally to demand a fair contract that addresses pay equity for women. Public-sector employment is a major factor in the race and gender wage gap.

It Takes Black Women in the U.S. 20 Months to Earn What White Men Make in a Year. Here's the History Behind That Wage Gap

Equal Pay Day begs us to understand how such inequities came to be, and why...

Equal Pay Day begs us to understand how such inequities came to be, and why they have been so difficult to move beyond

National Guardsmen question an African-American man in Chicago, after Mayor 'Big Bill' Thompson called in the National Guard on July 30, 1919, after three days of rioting.

‘It Just Goes On and On’: How the Race Riots of 1919's ‘Red Summer’ Helped Shape a Century of American History

"The story of Red Summer is a story of a nation fraught from the clash betw...

"The story of Red Summer is a story of a nation fraught from the clash between hope and threat," said Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot at a ceremony to mark the centennial

Repeatedly-Vandalized Emmett Till Memorial to Be Replaced With Bulletproof Sign

Vandals have repeatedly attacked the sign and previous markers

Civil Rights

Influential Civil Rights Advocate Juanita Abernathy Dies at 88

Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again

Her Fight for Civil Rights Was Recognized During the March on Washington's Tribute to Women—But She Wasn't Actually There

The U.S. Constitution Doesn’t Guarantee Equal Rights for Women. Here’s Why

It Takes Black Women in the U.S. 20 Months to Earn What White Men Make in a Year. Here's the History Behind That Wage Gap

‘It Just Goes On and On’: How the Race Riots of 1919's ‘Red Summer’ Helped Shape a Century of American History

Repeatedly-Vandalized Emmett Till Memorial to Be Replaced With Bulletproof Sign

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