During these moments of despair, whether after an election ... picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images We live in an echo of the civil rights movement. The passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting ...

In writing this book, titled Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 ... s police dogs and firehoses, the despair of the freedom fighters in Mississippi ...

The Civil Rights Movement is often heralded as a watershed moment in American history. It is remembered for dismantling ...

When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

Affirmative action was never the true goal of the civil rights movement; the ultimate prize was full racial equality. At best a consolation prize, affirmative action was a modest concession ...

Through nonviolent protests and other forms of civil disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement was a decade’s long effort to make racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and inequality illegal ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...

The civil-rights movement is remembered for its stirring rhetoric and sustaining faith, but it also had another trait that’s required for a social movement to succeed: discipline. “Those of us ...

New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The ...