Civil Rights Movement - AAIHS

James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late

The long shadow of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, continues to overwhelm Black political and intellectual

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In a recent news conference, Senate Minority Leader