Racial Violence

Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On the evening of October 5,

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.