Tag: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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.

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.