civil rights movement

Content about the US civil rights movement.

Cover of the book *We Will Shoot Back*

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement - Akinyele Omowale Umoja

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

No Justice, No Peace - Asad Haider

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

Direct Action (SWF): Vol 5 #01 (31) Jan 1964)

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…

Bad: The autobiography of James Carr

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

At canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68

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,…

Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65

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

Parting the waters: Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch

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

Memphis sanitation strike

The Memphis sanitation strike, 1968

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

Dockum Drug Store sit-in

Wichita students sit-in for US civil rights, 1958

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

Roger Johnson and Pete Seeger singing "We shall overcome"

Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movement

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

Black representation after Ferguson – John Clegg

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

Alternative Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1948)

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…