Civil Rights

I Talked My Way Into the March on Washington

A Veteran AP Reporter on the Day That Changed America and Launched Her Career

Through the years, when I tell people that I covered the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, they often ask, “Did you know?”

They mean: Did I know I was present at the making of history? Did I know I was hearing one of history’s greatest moments of oratory—Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech? Did I know that the nation would change because of this day?

The answer seems to be yes.

I was lucky enough this week to obtain a copy of something I wrote on August 29, 1963, and …

by Linda Deutsch |

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American Voters, American Writers, American Indians

Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy by Gary May

The nutshell: University of Delaware historian May chronicles the civil rights struggles—including the assassinations of Medgar Evers …

Did Civil Rights Not Happen?

The Black-White Wealth Gap Today Is Bigger Than It Was 30 Years Ago. But It's Not All About Race.

by Richard Thompson Ford |

A black man—Barack Obama—sits in the Oval Office. A black woman—Oprah Winfrey—joins Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on the Forbes magazine list of richest individuals in the world. A black …

When MLK Thrilled L.A.—and Me

A Rally in the Sports Arena Changed Me From Picketer to Freedom Rider

by Ellen Broms |

In the mid-1950s, when I was a teenager, I moved with my family from Buffalo, New York to Los Angeles. I’d spent my early years on the Lower East Side …

Defying Jim Crow To Shag

by Tom Poland |

I went to high school in Lincoln County, Georgia, during the dwindling days of Jim Crow. I didn’t understand all that was changing right in front of me. Elijah Clark …

Civil Rights Are Yesterday

It’s Time For a New Approach To Social Justice

by Richard Thompson Ford |

When I was a child growing up in the 1970s, I learned to revere Martin Luther King Jr. and the power of civil rights. Many of us felt that a …


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