Civil rights era changed how Black Americans see themselves

The same pattern appeared for optimism and imagination. Around the time of the civil rights movement, Black newspapers ...
The Boston Globe

What if we are misremembering the civil rights movement?

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...
The Economist

The civil-rights activists planned to change the world, not just the country

AMERICAN PUBLIC memory of the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has long been fixed on the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow in the South. Most accounts centre on the national efforts of ...