Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators raise their fists during a rally in New York on April 27, 1968. Bev Grant/Getty Images
by Rodney Coates, Miami University
During the...
Lester Maddox is sworn in as governor of Georgia on Jan. 11, 1967. Bettmann/Getty Images
by David Cason, University of North Dakota
In January 1967, after...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks to reporters in Atlanta on Aug. 14, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
by Rodney Coates, Miami University
Some Republican lawmakers in...
by Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs
Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.
Known around the...
Jim Brown takes a break during a 1963 Cleveland Browns football game.
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by Kenneth L. Shropshire, University of Pennsylvania
Throughout his celebrated life, Jim Brown...
by Marc Arsell Robinson, California State University, San Bernardino
When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins...
by Connie L. Schaffer, University of Nebraska Omaha; Martha Graham Viator, Rowan University, and Meg White, Stockton University
They were known as “the McDonogh Three,”...
In this 1998 photograph, former Iowa teacher Jane Elliott, center, speaks with two Augsburg University students about the problems of racism.
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