Born in Harlem, NY, in 1924, James Baldwin had a calling from a young age to be a writer and activist during the Civil Rights Movement. At age 24, he moved to France so he could write more freely and ...

Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s ... before the Committee on the Militia," Mar. 3, 1853, Robert Morris Papers, Boston Athenaeum Morris witnessed and ...

A local community activist wants to honor the work of civil rights photographer James Karales, who grew up in Canton.

One of the African American writers who galvanized a second black Renaissance — the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s — the prolific Baraka produced poems, plays, essays, fiction and music ...

about the failed effort to get justice for Till, Rosa Parks refused to submit to racially segregated seating rules on a bus—igniting the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). And in July 2013 ...

His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...