Above all else, Stokely Carmichael was a grassroots organizer. He was born in Trinidad but came to the United States as a child and grew up in in Harlem...

In one of countless white supremacist massacres in U.S. history, white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black community in Oklahoma, known today as the Tulsa Massacre.

The lesson shows how government policies segregated every major city in the United States with dire consequences for African Americans.

Paul Robeson and William Patterson submitted a petition from the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) to the United Nations, signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists.

Abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman, perhaps the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, engineered her first rescue mission in December 1850.

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist, was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.

The Ku Klux Klan bombed the home of labor and voting rights activists Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore — killing them both. Harriette Moore taught elementary school, secretly teaching her students...

James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.

Here is a list of some of the countless massacres in the history of the United States.

Amid a worldwide uprising against police brutality and racism, we discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis.

While politicians debated the implications of taking down the Confederate flag after the white supremacist murder of nine African Americans at Emmanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled the South...

Late night raid on the Charleston post office by a mob of white supremacists and the burning of abolitionist mail.

The Philadelphia Police Department dropped a C-4 bomb on the home of the MOVE organization, killing eleven people (including five children) and wiping out half a city block.

Paul Robeson was one of the most important figures of the 20th century. He was a “renaissance man” — an acclaimed athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, lawyer, and internationally-renow...

Reconstruction, the era immediately following the Civil War and emancipation, is full of stories that help us see the possibility of a future defined by racial equity.

Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.

Overview of Native American activism since the late 1960s, including protests at Mt. Rushmore, Alcatraz, Standing Rock, and more.

In Detroit, Michigan Chinese American man Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a hate crime by two white auto workers who blamed Chin for the massive lay-offs occurring in the auto industry. The judge...

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist, was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.

Born on this day, Ella Baker was a civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s whose career spanned more than five decades.

While politicians debated the implications of taking down the Confederate flag after the white supremacist murder of nine African Americans at Emmanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled the South...

The elected and interracial Reconstruction era local government was deposed in a coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina.

In light of the 2020 rebellion, we offer materials to teach the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in the United States.

Paul Robeson was one of the most important figures of the 20th century. He was a “renaissance man” — an acclaimed athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, lawyer, and internationally-renow...

Black sharecroppers were evicted by white landowners simply for exercising their right to register to vote.

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist, was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.

Reading by Julian Hipkins III and David Busch The struggle for the desegregation of transportation has a long history in the United States. This timeline outlines some key individuals and organizat...

The elected and interracial Reconstruction era local government was deposed in a coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Born on this day, Ella Baker was a civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s whose career spanned more than five decades.

Haiti became a free republic after a revolution, declaring independence for ALL people.

Find resources to teach about Indigenous Peoples' Day and to help students learn the real history of Christopher Columbus.

Two years before the Kent State murders, 28 students were injured and three were killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina — most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest.

At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association was founded with a dual mission to organize mutual aid for its members and to pass federal pension legislation that would compensate every...

Harriet Tubman planned and guided a significant armed raid (becoming the first woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots, and plantations along the Combahee River in...

The Philadelphia Police Department dropped a C-4 bomb on the home of the MOVE organization, killing eleven people (including five children) and wiping out half a city block.

Sociologist, author, and educator James W. Loewen died on August 19, 2021 at the age of 79.

A white mob seized three African American business men in Memphis, Tennessee and lynched them without trial.

Born on this day, Ella Baker was a civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s whose career spanned more than five decades.

After posting a racist manifesto online before targeting a majority-Black neighborhood, a white supremacist killed ten people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

Paul Robeson and William Patterson submitted a petition from the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) to the United Nations, signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and activists.

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist, was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi.

Unit with three lessons on voting rights, including the history of the struggle against voter suppression in the United States.

Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rose up against their captors, seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them to chattel slavery.

Twenty-four enslaved Africans launched a rebellion in Manhattan, New York.

Educators sign pledge saying they will not lie to students.

"Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? We know a state trooper acting under the orders of George Wallace pointed the gun and pulled the trigger, but how many other fingers were on that trigger? Every...

When asked at a White House luncheon about “juvenile delinquency,” Eartha Kitt responded by talking about the root causes of rebellion, including the Vietnam War and the draft.

Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting about Emmett Till days before her refusal to give up her seat on the bus.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

A lesson exploring the history and evolution of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, from freedom rides to voter registration.

By Bill Bigelow This erasure of huge swaths of humanity is a fundamental feature of the school curriculum, but also of the broader mainstream political discourse. We usually think about the curricu...

Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates...

The New York City Draft Massacre (“Riots”) were the largest civil insurrection in U.S. history besides the Civil War itself. White mobs attacked the African American community — committing murder and...

Since April, 13,000 copies of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the young readers’ edition of a book by acclaimed historian Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert,...

The South Carolina constitutional convention met with a majority of Black delegates, adopting a constitution that provided for all people regardless of race, economic class, or gender.

The United States dropped an atomic bomb for the first time in war over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

A white mob seized three African American business men in Memphis, Tennessee and lynched them without trial.

Three hundred and twenty-two inmates were killed in a fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Colin Kaepernick asked for our help to get A People's History of the United States into the hands of young people at his Know Your Rights Camp.

The 1619 Project, a multiplatform effort by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times, highlights the fundamental role slavery played in the United States’ development by commemorating...

We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events.

Who is Bill Clinton to weigh in on whether or not civil rights organizer Kwame Ture went “too far”?

Sarah Keys refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus, prompting the landmark court case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager, was murdered. The death of Martin and acquittal of the man who shot him sparked the national and global Movement for Black Lives.

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for leading the infamous Harpers Ferry Raid.

The Reverend James Lawson has died at the age of 95. Lawson was a godfather of the civil rights movement whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called the “the leading theorist and strategist of...

Harriet Elizabeth Brown was a Calvert County school teacher in the 1930s. In 1937, she became aware that white teachers were making almost twice the salary of Black teachers who had the same level of...

Irene Morgan refused to change her seat on a segregated bus in Virginia.

Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by police and FBI agents in Chicago, Illinois.

A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.

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James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.