Kenneth Jolly, a professor of history and the chairperson of the Black Studies Program at Saginaw Valley State University, ...

Hamer was deeply involved in the civil rights movement, a community organizer known for her use of spirituals who organized ...

Jelani Favors, Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism. Chicago Black Freedom movement by Useni E. Perkins, Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from ...

The Dayton branch of the NAACP held an event for Black History Month Thursday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as ...

Discover the collaboration between Black press and the Black labor union movement in this insightful chapter from Dr. Frances 'Toni' Draper's book.

It is not recognised as a federal holiday. Kwanzaa emerged during the Black Freedom Movement of the 1960s as a way to reconnect Black communities in the US with important African cultural ...

Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement ... who organized the Freedom Summer Project, a volunteer campaign in 1964 to register as many black voters as possible in ...

Rap Brown launched the "Black Power" slogan, paving the way for a new phase of the freedom movement. Poor People's Campaign/Resurrection City (1968) The last great initiative of Martin Luther King ...

Area residents can celebrate Black history and learn about the civil rights movement at the Underground Railroad Museum’s ...

whose work has focused on local and international Black freedom struggles, connecting the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and the anti-colonial struggles in Africa. “Because of ...