His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. — who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction. Where issues of race and activism stand 60 ...

The children warriors of the Civil Rights movement have never had their story told in mainstream media. Henderson cast young actors. For many of them, the short film was their first project.

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...

In 1963, the site of Hunter B. Andrews Pre-K-8 School in Hampton was once home to Dixie Hospital, a focal point during the ...

It’s not as fraught as World War Two. It’s not as fraught as the 1960s, with Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement and a seemingly endless supply of domestic bombings. It’s not as fraught as ...