Rosa Parks

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

A woman who repeatedly challenged racial violence and the prejudiced systems protecting its perpetrators.

The Northern Student Movement considered inviting Rosa Parks to give a speech on police brutality, but ultimately decided against it.

The civil rights icon also played a key role in pursuing justice for the victims of sexual assault.

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.

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

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”

The project of “reclamation and celebration” proceeds from an impulse to rediscover black Greats who by force of their own will make “change.”

Why women civil rights organizers marginalized at this event, and how that affects our collective memory of the struggle.

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.

Claudette Colvin is a Civil Rights hero you've probably never heard of. In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, months before Rosa Parks.

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

How one black woman's campaign for justice after a rape by six white men shaped the struggle for equality—and the #MeToo movement.

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.

Politics have diluted King's dream.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?