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A social movement in the US from the 1950s to the 1960s that aimed to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.
Coretta Scott King did publicly respond to rumors about Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged infidelities, generally downplaying them and expressing faith in her marriage even when FBI surveillance materi...
No—Martin Luther King Jr. was never criminally charged with or convicted of rape; the most explosive claims about him stem from FBI surveillance memos and a 2019 essay by David Garrow that cite sealed...
The Confederate battle flag originated as a military emblem of the Confederate armies during the Civil War, a rebellion whose constitution explicitly protected slavery, and over time that banner was r...
The legal and social gains won by the mid-20th century civil rights movement are real and durable—landmark laws and court decisions reshaped public life—but many of those gains are contested in practi...
New reporting and declassified files document that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in extramarital sexual relationships and that the FBI collected and publicized material about those relationships as p...
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) rose from a troubled youth and prison sentence to become the Nation of Islam’s most visible minister and national spokesman, articulating Black nationalism, ...
Malcolm X’s 1964 denunciations of “white liberals” — calling them false friends who “have failed us” and even “the worst enemy to the Black man” — were explicit and recurring themes in his speeches . ...
Joe Biden has repeatedly made a small but consequential set of false or misleading claims spanning policy details, personal anecdotes, and his handling of classified materials; these have been catalog...
Yes — unequivocally: Black people should have rights. The arc of U.S. history — from slavery through Jim Crow to the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s — records a sustained struggle to sec...
Ralph Abernathy’s 1989 memoir, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, which detailed Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged extramarital affairs, provoked sharp public condemnation from civil‑rights leaders and ...