The Women Who Stood With Martin Luther King Jr. And Sustained a Movement for Social Change

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book ...
insider.si.edu

How long? How long? : African-American women in the struggle for civil rights / Belinda Robnett

Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- ...
PBS

Civil Rights in the Sky: The woman who paved the way for Black flight attendants

Learn how Pat Banks Edmiston broke barriers in the sky. The struggle for equal opportunity in the airline industry was turbulent—but one Black woman’s challenge opened the doors for change. Learn how ...
Time

The Black Women Who Knew That Civil Rights Were Human Rights

Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963. Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963 ...
Afro

From overseas theatres of war to local civil rights battlegrounds: Veterans who paved the way

The service of Black soldiers in wars such as World War II significantly influenced the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring demands for equality within the military and throughout the United States. Sign ...
Washingtonian

After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally Coming

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina. The fierce assault against the Confederate Army—portrayed in the film Glory ...