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 ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the ...

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 ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...

One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Cole was not only a groundbreaking ... ways in which he challenged the status quo and contributed to the Civil Rights Movement. Beneath the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...