Civil Rights Movement

<p>Sixty-five years ago, Ruby Bridges became the first Black child in the South to attend an all-white elementary school.</p>

This photograph depicts the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, DC, August 28, 1963.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law, marking a transformative moment in American history. Through its passage, segregation was outlawed in public spaces, and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was prohibited. Efforts to dismantle systemic inequality…

This case arose from a challenge to Louisiana’s Separate Car Act, which mandated segregated railway cars for Black and white passengers. Homer Plessy, who was of mixed race but legally classified as Black under Louisiana law, deliberately sat in a whites-only railcar to test the law’s…

<p>The boy's vicious killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped to transform America's racial consciousness.</p>

<p>Growing up in segregated Texas, I didn’t think much about race. Then, I covered the civil rights movement in the 1960s.</p>

<p><span class="deck">When one weary woman refused to be harassed out of her seat in the bus, the whole shaky edifice of Jim Crow began to totter</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Nobody was murdered or maimed, but nobody backed down for twenty years in the struggle over school integration in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Who finally won?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A century after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern blacks still were denied the vote. In 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr, set out to change that—by marching through the heart of Alabama.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Twenty years ago blacks were virtually disenfranchised throughout the South. Now their votes may elect our next President.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">30 years ago, John Howard Griffin, a white Texan, became an itinerant Southern black for four weeks. His account of the experience, "Black like Me," galvanized the nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body"><span class="pullquote even">A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.</span></span></span></p>

<p>A wide range of historians, writers, and public figures reflect on “the most important, or interesting, or overlooked way in which America has changed"</p>

<p><span class="deck">Sixty years ago this month, the Soviet Union orbited a “man-made moon” whose derisive chirp persuaded Americans that they’d already lost a race that had barely begun.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For the first time in a generation, student activism is on the rise. Do these new protesters have anything like the zeal, the conviction, and the clout of their famous 1960s predecessors?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Facing a nearly invisible enemy, we all may be subjected to new kinds of government scrutiny. But previous wars suggest that the final result may be greater freedom.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The 50 Biggest Changes in the Last 50 Years</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What’s going to happen when the most prosperous, best-educated generation in history finally grows up? (And just how special <span class="typestyle"> are</span> the baby boomers?) </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Montgomery Bus Boycott and its legacy</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What would Martin Luther King Jr.—had he been alive today—thought of our latest president’s oratory?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Although marred by the grisly murders of three young activists, the Freedom Summer of 1964 brought revolutionary changes to Mississippi and the nation.</span></p>

<p>During demonstrations in Birmingham, Martin Luther King Jr. took perhaps the most fateful decision made during the civil rights era.</p>

<p>A new Greensboro museum celebrates the courage of four young black men 50 years ago.</p>

<p>J.R. Clifford fought his real battles in the courtroom</p>

<p>The noted writer and educator tells of his boyhood in the West Virginia town of Piedmont, where African Americans were second-class citizens, but family pride ran deep.</p>

<p>The modern version of an African-American spiritual has helped draw together people who are fighting for justice.</p>

<p>In a pivotal trip in 1967, Senator Kennedy saw first-hand the effects of poverty in the Delta.</p>

<p>During the Black Panther trials in New Haven 50 years ago this summer, a remarkable group of leaders helped calm a boisterous crowd of protesters.</p>

<p>The enduring legacy of the Civil Rights Movement lies not in soundbites from its most charismatic leaders, but in the impact it had on the lives of ordinary people.</p>

<p>Jordan’s publisher recalls working with the civil rights and corporate leader, who died on March 1.</p>

<p>An exhibit now touring the U.S. highlights the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s, with a focus on the violence and brutality endured by its participants. </p>

<p>Written while he was jailed for leading nonviolent demonstrations, King's open letter defined the Civil Rights movement.</p>

<p style="line-height: 1.38;">The legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer’s life was her belief that the United States could indeed live up to its ideals.</p>

<p>A college student in the march from Selma to Montgomery recalls the struggle for democracy in Alabama in 1965.</p>

<p>An honest telling of history, including deeply disturbing events such as the murder of Emmett Till, allows us to look at our past in a richer and more meaningful way. </p>