civil rights movement

Content about the US civil rights movement.

Disabled Radicals, Disability Action Research Kollective, 4x4 grid of peoples faces

Disabled Radicals

Disabled people have been active parts of every society and liberatory movement. Yet when history is written, disability is often erased or stigmatised. This zine aims to celebrate the…

Cover of "Just Another N-word" by Don Cox, a former Black Panther

Just Another N*****: My Life In The Black Panther Party

The definitive memoir of life in the Black Panther Party -- and its decline due to the flaws of…

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…