OBITUARY: The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a towering figure in the American civil rights movement, has passed away at the age of 84. Ariana Baio looks back on his inspirational life

Robert Russa Moton, a nationally recognized leader in Black education and civil rights advocacy, transformed his Gloucester home, Holly Knoll, into a gathering place for ideas and strategies that helped shape the future of American civil rights.

Black History Month should prompt more than commemoration. It should force a harder question: whether we recognize the logic of the civil rights movement when it reappears — in contested spaces

Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano -- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer -- The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the new ideology of ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, marches and boycotts that called out injustice and ...

A traveling exhibit celebrating civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. brings national history back to its local roots.

The spiral group : defining African American art during the civil rights movement / Sharon Pruitt -- Jazz musicians in Europe : 1919 to 1945 / Larry Ross -- Black power, Chicago politics, and social movements : what have we learned? / Elice Rogers -- A ...

An Oxford University college has paid tribute to Rev Jesse L Jackson after his death. The 84-year-old was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and a two-time US presidential candidate who led the civil rights movement for decades.