Tracing the March on Washington Back to Where It Began, in Harlem Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.
Community Land Trusts Are Working to Create New Homeowners Born of the Civil Rights Movement, community land trusts are working to preserve neighborhoods and create new homeowners, from New York to California.
Charles Sherrod, Civil Rights Pioneer in Rural Georgia, Dies at 85 He brought his deep Christian faith and his commitment to grass-roots organizing to the small town of Albany. He never left.
Education in America: School Is for Making Citizens Public education requires lessons about history and also contact with and context about other Americans: who we are and what has made us.