In the summer of 1967, the arrest and fatal beating of an African-American cab driver in Newark, New Jersey, led to a six-day riot in which 23 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. High unemployment rates among black youth, tense relations with the police, and gentrification (which many African Americans saw as an attempt at outright removal), all contributed to the riots.

The first sit-in of the Civil Rights movement happened when four African-American college students sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960. The Greensboro sit-in sparked a wave of similar protests throughout the South, as well as "sympathy sit-ins" by college students in the North.

In March 1965, Reverend James J. Reeb, a white Unitarian-Universalist minister and civil rights activist from Boston, was beaten to death by a white gang in Selma, Alabama, following a peaceful demonstration. Civil rights activists across the country mourned his death.

A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker.

When using a pull-lever vote-counting machine, voters flip switches to indicate their votes and pull a lever to record their choices. Although the machine does not create a paper record, it records the votes sequentially within the machine, allowing poll workers to verify votes in the event of a recount. While African Americans in northern states like Illinois were able to vote without significant harassment in the 1950s, many southern states set...

Nearly half a century since his murder, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was honored in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. PBS NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill examines the life and legacy of Evers - a World War II veteran and the NAACP's first field secretary in the South - with Jerry Mitchell of The Clarion-Ledger newspaper.

Civil rights activist and Congressman "John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, [was] a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers...

Ten African Americans recount stories about their participation in the American civil rights movement.

Opal Lee grew up as a Black girl in Texas at a time when Black and white people were kept separate and Black people had fewer opportunities than white people did. She knew that this wasn’t right, and she grew up to be a teacher and a community leader, determined to help create a better future for all people. A big part of her work and life was making Juneteenth a national holiday to mark the end of enslavement for Black Americans. She loved this...