Civil Rights

CNN Crew Covering Minneapolis Protests Arrested Live on Air

By Mélissa Godin and Madeleine Carlisle

Minneapolis Police Precinct Burns

By Michael Zennie , Sanya Mansoor , Mahita Gajanan , Mélissa Godin and Madeleine Carlisle

The Activist Origins of the Term 'Asian American'

By Anna Purna Kambhampaty

The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Abraham Lincoln Abolish Slavery

By Ainissa Ramirez / The MIT Press Reader
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Rosa Parks Predecessors Recall Their History-Making Acts of Resistance

In rare interviews, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith-Ware spoke to TIME about how their peaceful acts of defiance helped bring about a new stage of the civil rights movement

By Olivia B. Waxman

The Story Behind an Interactive Interview with a Civil Rights Activist

The story behind an interactive interview with Joyce Ladner

By Olivia B. Waxman

'We Have to Redeem the Soul of America.' John Lewis on What’s Changed and What Hasn’t Since the March on Washington

John Lewis remembers the 1963 March on Washington, and what came after

By John Lewis

Nearly 6 Decades After the Civil Rights Act, Why Do Black Workers Still Have to Hustle to Get Ahead?

Here's why black Americans have to hustle more

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

For Decades, an Annual Competition Has Challenged Students to Deliver Speeches Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. Here's Why It's Still Going Strong

An HBO documentary follows students preparing for the 40th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratorical Festival in Oakland, Calif.

By Olivia B. Waxman

California Governor Pardons Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin Over Gay Sex Conviction

"His conviction is part of a long and reprehensible history"

By Katie Reilly

What People Still Get Wrong About Segregation

The two so-called "separate but equal" societies were never equal, and the "separate" part of the equation is misleading, too

By Andrew Joseph Pegoda

Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat?

"I’m not concerned about telling you what party to vote for," he said in 1958

By Olivia B. Waxman

The Remarkable Black Businesswomen Who Found Success in Segregated America

At a time when they couldn’t get credit from a bank or even have their own bank accounts, black women found a measure of success and independence by listing their businesses in the Green Book

By Candacy Taylor

He Attended the March on Washington in 1963. Now He'll Return to the Scene in Virtual Reality With His Great-Grandson

'The March' premieres in Chicago in February 2020

By Olivia B. Waxman

A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters

Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age

By Brianna Theobald

The History of Modern Mass Incarceration of African Americans Goes Deeper Than You May Think

A Louisiana law of 1848 declared that children born to enslaved female prisoners confined in the penitentiary belonged to the state

By Jeff Forret / History News Network

Montgomery, Ala., Was a Hub of the Slave Trade and a Center of the Civil Rights Movement. It's About to Swear in Its First Black Mayor

Here's how Steven L. Reed sees that past—and his city's future

By Olivia B. Waxman

The True Story of Harriet Tubman Shows That Sometimes Running Is as Brave as Fighting

Tubman was unflinching in her commitment to liberation and would use the power of her pistol if necessary

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Bulletproof Emmett Till Marker Erected in Mississippi

The civil rights movement was sparked in part by Till's brutal murder

By Madeleine Carlisle

A Century Ago, African Americans Were Massacred in Elaine, Ark. We're Still Reckoning With That Moment

Elaine was a turning point, but it was only one of many

By Michael K. Honey / History News Network
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