Civil Rights Movement

CFP: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual and Intellectual Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

Gregory Ellison’s recently published edited volume on Howard Thurman explores the varied roles that the theologian, mystic, professor, and preacher

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom stands apart as one of the most well-known events of the modern

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

Some of America’s most celebrated Black intellectuals—Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Ida B. Wells, Carter G. Woodson,