In his new book, “The Makeshift City” (GOST Books, 2024), Georgia State University photography instructor Joshua Dudley Greer tells the story of an ever-changing Atlanta in 69 color photographs made ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.

As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent acts of civil disobedience ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

February is around the corner – an annual nationally-recognized reminder to explore and celebrate Black history. This month ...

As Ambassador Andrew Young said of the passing of Congressman John Lewis “there is going to be a great camp meeting in the sky,” as the civil rights leader joined his peers and other racial and social ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...