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A history professor describes the impact and history of the opening speech made during the March on Washington by the trade unionist Philip Randolph, whose visi

On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—about two-thirds black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights demonstration ever. Martin Luthe

While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animate

Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Lati