The American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has been well-documented by historians. SUNY Cortland’s Evan Faulkenbury, an assistant professor in the History Department, has found a story ...

Three days after the March on Washington in August 1963, tensions flared in Enfield, North Carolina, as hundreds of Black people who had picketed most of the day faced off with police and vigilantes, ...

Juan Williams is giving new eyes to a project that he first started more than 30 years ago, penning a book on what he describes as the growth of a 21st century civil rights movement. “New Prize for ...

The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the University of Texas at Austin professor argues the ...

Over a five-year span between 1865 and 1870, following the end of the Civil War, three constitutional amendments were ratified to end slavery (the 13 th), make formerly enslaved people U.S. citizens ...

The Jefferson Educational Society continued its Global Summit Speaker series Thursday evening. Journalist and political ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a monumental piece of legislation that forever changed the ...

It is sometimes a gift and sometimes a curse that we are capable of reading history as having a plot. When it comes to the civil rights movement, competing plots have shaped — and sometimes harmfully ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

President Trump has taken steps to nullify a key component to the Civil Rights Act as he works to remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies from the federal government. One of the executive ...

Race and class identities in early American department stores -- Before Montgomery : organizing the department store movement -- To all store and office workers, Negro and white! : unionism and ...