A new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection, currently featuring a selection of our award-winning films from Stanley Nelson (Firelight), documenting pivotal moments in the 20th century civil rights ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, better known as the NAACP, has a long history, working since 1909 to advance justice and equality for African Americans. It was ...

Ahead of a service marking his extraordinary life's work at Bristol Cathedral on Friday, his daughter Fumi Stephenson has ...

The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Eric Foner: In the language of the nineteenth century, there are various degrees of equality.

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven ... introduced a raft of new federal initiatives in ...

He was a civil rights activist, a labor unionist ... Of all the voices I’ve heard on my journeys through America’s 20th-century history, it is his that resonates most with me. Rustin died in 1987, his ...