The modern rhetorical and political resistance to racial equality finds its roots in the conspiratorial segregationists of the civil rights era.
- Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
With the huge task of a late presidential run against Donald Trump, Kamala Harris faces challenges distinct from those faced by Vice President Hubert Humphrey after LBJ decided not to seek reelection.
Singer, actor and activist died on April 25 at the age of 96. His legacy spans stage, screen and political activism.
America’s complicated history with race can be told through the lives and times of Black Americans, a view that some GOP-controlled state legislatures want to restrict, if not outright ban.
Bill Russell leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of winning championships and civil rights activism during a time of racial segregation.
Poitier deslumbró a Hollywood con su gracia en la pantalla y su rentabilidad. Sus papeles cambiaron para siempre la imagen de los negros, que entonces eran representados principalmente como criados, bufones o delincuentes.
Poitier dazzled Hollywood with on-screen grace and bankability. His dignified roles and respectable values forever changed the image of Blacks, then mostly portrayed as maids, buffoons or criminals.
Meredith is a civil rights hero who doesn’t fit neatly into political categories. He espouses conservative ideas, yet he proclaims a radical mission to destroy white supremacy.
In 1968, Lyndon Johnson’s ridicule of presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey as weak and feminine tells us something about how a party of progressives still struggles with the idea of masculinity.
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