Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

California and the wide civil rights movement -- "An integrated ... program for racial justice" -- "Jap crow" -- "The problem of segregation as applied to Mexican-Americans" -- "Jim Crow is just about ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history. By Matthew F. Delmont Matthew F. Delmont is a professor of ...