Patricia Bell-Scott's new book explores the friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, the poet and civil rights activist. 

The daughter of a slave, Septima Clark graduated from college, became a teacher, and became a fierce advocate for social and cultural change.  

By using the body to resist and respond to violence and social injustice, protesters literally embody their cause.

Passage of the act was paved by the sacrifices of Civil Rights activists, especially those who had recently put their bodies on the line at Selma, Alabama.

The connection between civil rights and private property rights as they play out in the 1960s and now.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize was controversial—and that controversy had nothing to do with his age.