Category: Race and Ethnicity in America
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks gets a rave New York Times review, and author Jeanne Theoharis appears with another civil rights pioneer on Democracy Now.
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Read a selection from Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. It is one of the earliest works by an African American woman writer.
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Congress and the President honored Rosa Parks with a statue in the Capitol Rotunda, but our leaders missed the truly radical spirit of the lifelong activist.
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Sarah Garland talks about the achievements and disappointments of desegregation.
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Enter to win a free copy of Shout, Sister, Shout!, the biography of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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Lewis V. Baldwin calls for us to remember King’s global vision.
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Browse our African American titles: General Interest | African American History | Fiction and Poetry | Black Women Writers All month long, Beacon Press is offering 20% off and free shipping on all African American Studies titles purchased at Beacon.org. Use promo code FEB2013 at checkout. If you purchase two or more books, you'll also receive an attractive King Legacy Series tote…
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This post originally appeared at Huffington Post. Today would have been the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks. To honor the day, we share these Ten Things You Didn't Know About Rosa Parks, compiled by Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. 1. Parks had been thrown off the bus a decade earlier by…
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Examines why school desegregation, despite its success in closing the achievement gap, was never embraced wholeheartedly in the black community as a remedy for racial inequality In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation, changing how schools across America…
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In honor of the 94th birthday of Jackie Robinson, we share this story of how racism caused the Red Sox to let him get away.
