For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...
Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young describes ‘dirty work’ of civil rights movement in new documentary
Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...
Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history. By Matthew F. Delmont Matthew F. Delmont is a professor of ...
Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...
In 1947, African American brothers James and Robert Paschal launched a scrappy luncheonette in Atlanta’s Castleberry Hill neighborhood, their fried chicken earning renown as the house’s go-to ...
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