Jeanne Theoharis

Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.

Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.

On the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

A new documentary explores the origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — with lessons on how we see movements.

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.

King understood the perils of submerged racism.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

White liberals opposed segregation in the South, but fought tooth-and-nail to keep it in the North.

A new book bursts the bubble on what we’ve learned about the Civil Rights era to show a larger movement with layers.

This is the man who has criticized the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King as "shameful."

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

The civil rights activist and her family had to contend with racial discrimination beyond Montgomery.

Racial injustice is not a regional sickness. It's a national cancer.