Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass ...

The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate ...

currently featuring a selection of our award-winning films from Stanley Nelson (Firelight), documenting pivotal moments in the 20th century civil rights movement— along with articles ...

How did the African-American experience in the war, and in the postwar period, influence the civil rights movement? World War I was in many ways the beginning of the 20th-century civil rights movement ...

March 17 marks 106 years since the birth of musician Nat King Cole, whose success paved the way for future generations of Black artists.

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...

Here are seven notable mass gatherings of the civil rights movement ... a prominent early 20th century black advocacy group headed by Marcus Garvey, held its first convention in Liberty Hall ...

“The civil rights movement to me was the most important part of the 20th century. And when I go to colleges and young people, that’s how open up my speech,” he said. “It is our jo ...

It included just 28 words, but a single sentence transformed the civil rights of women in the United ... During the early 20th century, suffragists focused their efforts on a constitutional ...

To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks ... In the early 20th century, yoga grew in popularity specifically among women.

The exhibition tells the story of the Rosenwald School program, an ambitious early 20th century initiative led ... Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about ...