civil rights movement

Akinyele Omowale Umoja demonstrates how black armed resistance was critical to the…

Asad Haider explores the concepts of peace and justice in the thought of Martin Luther King. This article was first published by Viewpoint…

Volume 5, Issue 1 of Direct Action, with articles on Committee of 100 members being imprisoned, a strike by construction workers at St. Paul's…

The life story of a black panther, prison activist and situationist influenced revolutionary.

At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race,…

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.

First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of…

A short history of the 1968 strike of 1300 African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, during which Martin Luther King Jr. was…

A short history of the first successful sit-in protest of the civil rights movement in the Dockum Drug Store in Kansas.

The rise of “black power” led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement…

John Clegg, of the 'Endnotes' collective, examines the state of black politics in the US. Published in 'The Brooklyn Rail', May 3rd, 2016

The Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1948) issue of Alternative, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from 1948-1951 and focusing on pacifist…