How the Nation of Islam Pioneered Prison Protest
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.
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Civil Rights Movement
Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning
Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.
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Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi: Seeing Anne’s Struggles as Our Own
It’s been over 50 years since Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi in 1968. The autobiography chronicles Anne’s life
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‘Duty Beyond the Battlefield’: A New Book About Black Soldiers’ Role in Shaping Early Civil Rights
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC
Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and
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