Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

The civil rights movement that gained strength in the 1960s was marked by citizen activism – as well as police violence ...

A statue of the four freshmen who led the sit-in at the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On the ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...

In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing private ...

On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...