Good Trouble: John Lewis

Black and white: Nashville sit-ins of 1960, Nashville Banner's coverage and opposition to the movement; Banner leads effort to remove James Lawson from Vanderbilt. Ben West: Bombing of Z. Alexander Looby's home leads to a confrontation with Mayor West on courthouse steps by Diane Nash. Shades of gray: Desegregation of Buena Vista Elementary School; John Kasper led opposition to desegregation; bombing of Hattie Cotton Elementary School; modern...

A history of Fisk University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, told with photographs and text.

Most of us are well aware that there is something fundamentally broken about the way we vote, but not why. In One Person, No Vote, the author chronicles a timely, comprehensive, and powerful indictment of the history of brutal race-based vote suppression, and its many modern iterations- from voter ID requirements and voter purges to election fraud, and stolen elections. She also traces the related history of the rollbacks to African American participation...

"Bloody Sunday"--March 7, 1965--was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in nearby Marion, a state trooper, claiming self-defense, shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old unarmed deacon and civil rights protester. Jackson's subsequent death spurred local civil rights leaders to make the march to Montgomery; when that day also ended in violence, the call went out to activists across the...

Analysis of the events of the Freedom Summer Campaign of 1964 including the activities of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.