For seven decades, Harriet Tyler worked to preserve and document the history of African Americans in Orange County.
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New Exhibit Tackles Jim Crow Repression and Resistance | Colorlines
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow is the first of several upcoming New-York Historical Society exhibits dedicated to Black culture and history.
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Found: Rosa Parks’s Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History | The New York Times
When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, court motions and $10 fines. A forgotten trove has turned up in a courthouse vault.
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Fifty years on, the Mississippi town that sparked Dr King’s poverty fight | The Guardian
Protesters head to DC for ‘second phase’ of campaign inspired by Dr King that saw thousands travel by mule train to camp on the National Mall.
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Hidden portraits: rare photos of African American life get a spotlight | The Guardian
At a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art studio portraits of anonymous black Americans give a rarely seen view of life at a time of change
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‘This is huge’: black liberationist speaks out after her 40 years in prison | The Guardian
Exclusive: Debbie Sims Africa, the first freed member of a radical Philadelphia group many say were unjustly imprisoned, talks about reuniting with her son and defends the Move members still locked up: ‘We are peaceful people’
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The American Medical Association Just Elected Its First African American Woman President | Because of Them We Can
Since the American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847, it has never been led by a Black woman, until now.
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Homer A. Neal, Leader in Physics Who Explored Matter, Dies at 75 | The New York Times
Homer A. Neal, a physicist who helped shape education for physics undergraduates nationwide and led teams that took part in the hunt for the fundamental particles of matter, died on May 23 in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 75.
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Dorothy Cotton, Civil Rights Pioneer and MLK Colleague, Dies | Afro
Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., taught nonviolence to demonstrators before marches and sometimes calmed tensions by singing church hymns, has died. She was 88.
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America’s segregated shores: beaches’ long history as a racial battleground | The Guardian
For decades officials imposed regulations to restrict African Americans’ use of to public beaches – and the fight for equal access if far from over
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