University students from black colleges in Nashville including American Baptist, Fisk, Meharry, and Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial School held a sit-in protest at the downtown...
To say that Richard and Mildred Loving were reluctant heroes would be an understatement. Richard, with his platinum blonde crew cut, backwoods accent, and taciturn...
From 1882 to 1944, there were about 4,700 lynchings in the United States; Mississippi led the nation with 573. Of Mississippi’s victims, 93% were African...
More than 200 white people wielding baseball bats and ax handles chased African Americans through the streets of downtown Jacksonville, trying to beat them into...
Viola Liuzzo was an American civil rights activist who played a significant role in the fight for racial equality during the 1960s. Born in California...
After decades of waiting, justice has finally been served in the case of the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Jackson’s death, which occurred in 1965,...