In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and caree...

Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its f...

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the Univer...

In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and caree...

The first-person account of a daring, extraordinary blow against segregation

Broadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement an...

Scholars examine the activist efforts of Black Americans in Memphis in a series of essays ranging...

In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and caree...

"e;A nuanced and engaging look at what was one of the last major marches of the civil-rights ...

The presidential election of 1968 forever changed American politics. In this character-driven nar...