The story of the 1963 Birmingham civil rights demonstrations, and the brutal response from Birmingham officials has been told many times and often told well. But missing from these accounts is an ...
Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.” Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political change, I ...
In the spring of 1963, Birmingham, Alabama was a city gripped by fear. Many doubted that Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth’s and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Birmingham Campaign” against segregation could ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback