Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Howard Manly, The Conversation
Left out of GOP...
A group of teenagers marching during a civil rights rally. Bettman via Getty Images
by Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana
Fifty-eight years ago in the...
Black demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Images
by Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst
Signed into...
Civil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File
by Anthony Siracusa, St. John Fisher University
Rev. James...
Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators raise their fists during a rally in New York on April 27, 1968. Bev Grant/Getty Images
by Rodney Coates, Miami University
During the...
Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...
by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
For the past 12 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director of the Morehouse College Martin...
Think about Ferguson and the Justice Department’s recent report that condemned the Ferguson police department and court system for biased and discriminatory law enforcement...
