Civil Rights
What Were The Black Panthers? Facts And Truth About A C...
October 15, 2020
The Black Panthers -- officially, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense -- strike a fearsome pose in the racial tumult of the late 1960s. The assassinatio...
1972: Bob Douglas Becomes The First Black Man Inducted ...
February 5, 2020
With thousands of wins under his belt and decades of experience as owner and coach of one of the most important and earliest black basketball teams, Bob Doug...
How 400+ Indians Occupied Alcatraz And Changed Richard ...
September 26, 2019
Native Americans, one named Tim Williams (a chief of the Klamath River Hurek tribe), approaching Alcatraz Island by boat, late 1969 or early 1970. Photo by Ralp...
'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner' Was A Racial Reality Che...
September 14, 2019
In Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Sidney Poitier plays John, a black man meeting his white fiancee's parents, who are played by Spencer Tracy and Katharine He...
The Very First Sit-In At A Greensboro Woolworth's, 1960...
March 19, 2019
On February 1, 1960, the first "sit-in" took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, and this demonstration by four courageous young African-American men proved...
The Era Of Segregation: Historical Photos Of Inequality
January 26, 2019
The United States has come a long way since institutionalized segregation. Historical photos, though, are a powerful reminder of the injustice of the "separate ...
The 1963 March on Washington: A Civil Rights Triumph
January 10, 2019
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing crowd of demonstrators outside the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Source: (Photo by Franc...
