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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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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Poor People’s Campaign Launches With March on Capitol Hill | Colorlines
The campaign’s list of demands directly address the issues of systemic racism and economic inequality.
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Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 | The Guardian
The Observer dispatched photographer Colin Jones to cover the story and capture the activism centred around the 16th Street Baptist church.
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A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. | The New York Times
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.
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When a white conductor tried to manhandle Ida B. Wells, she took a bite out of his hand | Timeline
It was a daring act of self-defense at a time when blacks were being lynched for merely existing
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Nikki Giovanni: ‘Martin Had Faith in the People’ | The Atlantic
The day after King’s death, the writer-activist wrote a poem about what his loss meant to a movement. Fifty years later, she discusses how his model of leadership lives on.
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A Black Evangelist Who Opposed Dr. King | The New York Times
New research shows how Elder Michaux, the first minister with a weekly television show, worked with the F.B.I. to discredit the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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50 Years After His Assassination, We Are No Closer to Realizing MLK’s Most Radical Dream | New York
Whether we have made any progress toward realizing King’s more radical dream — the one he was chasing at the time of his death — is far less clear.
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Deacons for Defense provided protection when no one else would | USA Today
Robert Hicks, Charles Sims and A.Z. Young started the first affiliate chapter in Bogalusa. The group’s intense confrontations with the Klan in Bogalusa was pivotal in forcing the federal government’s involvement on the behalf of the local African-American community.
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