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A Call to Consciousness, a Legacy to Remember: A Conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A Nation without Class: A Social History of Inequality since the 1970s

A Strange Place for a Revolution: Lessons from Black Beauty Shops during an Era of Crisis

African American Veterans and the Struggle for Civil Rights

African American Women's Activism in the Civil Rights Movement

After Civil Rights: Contemporary Race Relations in the American South

American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era

An Unlikely Civil Rights Activist: Fred W. Phelps Sr. and Race Relations in Topeka, 1964-1989

Arc of Justice: The Sweet Case and the Course of Civil Rights

B

"Black Lives Matter" and the Persistence of the Sixties

Barack Obama, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Long History of African American Politics

Black Founders: African American Civil Rights Struggles in the Age of Revolution

Black Power/Black Faith: Rethinking the "De-Christianization" of the Black Freedom Struggle

Black-Jewish Cooperation during the Civil Rights Era: Challenges to Minority Group Leadership

Building Community-Based Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

C

Civil Rights and Antiapartheid

Civil Rights and Race/Ethnic Relations in Trump's America

Civil Rights and the Cold War at Home

Civil Rights before Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights in the Age of Trump

Civil Rights in the Era of Jesse Jackson, 1966-1990

Civil Rights in the Ring: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and the Struggle over the Color Line

Civil Rights Movement (multiple talks available)

Civil Rights or the War Against Poverty? The Politics of History

Civil Rights Responses to Japanese Internment

Civil Rights Unionism

Civil Rights vs. Civil Liberties: The Case of Hate Speech

Civil War and Civil Rights in Philadelphia

Contemporary Feminism and Civil Rights

D

Difficult Subjects: James H. Meredith, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Problem of Monumental History

Doris Miller, Hero of Pearl Harbor and Catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement

E

Brown and the Civil Rights Movement

Ella Baker: The Woman who Invented the Civil Rights Movement

F

Faith and Leadership in the Northern Civil Rights Movement

Feminism and the Civil Rights Revolution

Fight the Power! The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

Follow the Lawyers: How the NAACAP Ignited the Civil Rights Movement

Freedom Summer: The History and Legacy of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project

From Civil Rights to Black Power: Modern American Identity and Cultural Politics

From Civil Rights to Human Rights in Twentieth-Century America

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: Laying a Foundation for Change

G

Gloria Richardson

God Is on Our Side: The Sanctification of Civil Rights in the United States

Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Campaign

H

Hate Nation: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Homophobia Since the 1970s

Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement

How California's Civil Rights History Compels a Rethinking of America's Civil Rights History, from World War II to Bakke

How Filipino Veterans Joined the Greatest Generation, 1945-2009

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

How We Define Inequality

I

"I AM a Man!": Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Memphis Sanitation Strike

"I Wanted the Whole World to See": Mamie Till Mobley, Mourning Mothers, and Black Freedom Struggles

Interracial Activism in the Los Angeles Community Service Organization: Linking the World War II and Civil Rights Eras

Is Marriage a Civil Right?

J

Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North

Jim Crow: Race, Rights, and Reaction in Twentieth-Century America

Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement

K

King and Malcolm X

L

Latino Civil Rights in Post-World War II America

Law for a Gospel Church: Legal Culture and Civil Rights before Brown

Leadership during the Civil Rights–Black Power Era and Beyond

Liberal NIMBY: American Jews and Civil Rights in the North

Local Legal Culture and the Hidden History of Civil Rights

Lost in the U.S.A.: A New Age Search for Order

M

Making Black Feminist Sense of #BlackLivesMatter

Martin Luther King Jr. and Global Liberation

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Unfinished Agenda

Memorializing the Movement: Civil Rights Commemorations and America's Ideology of Tolerance

Mississippi Burning: Closing the Case on the Civil Rights Killings of 1964

Mobilizing Memory: How to Remember the Civil Rights Movement and Why it Matters

Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and his commitment to Human Rights

Music in the Civil Rights Movement

Myths of the Civil Rights Movement

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"New York is like Johannesburg": The Global Dimensions of the African American Freedom Movement

Nazis, Red-Baiting, and Civil Rights: Jewish Americans' Emergence as Interracial Activists in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement

P

Pan-Africanism, Labor, and Civil Rights: The Activism of Maida Springer, George McCray, and A. Philip Randolph

Penn Center and the Civil Rights Movement

Public Murals, Community Activism: Latino Murals in Illinois and California

R

Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders

Radical Nonviolence, Interracial Utopias, and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Re-Reading Du Bois's Life and Scholarship through a Gendered Lens

Reconsidering the Civil Rights Movement in the Era of Black Lives Matter

Reconstruction from the Right: The United States in the 1970s

Reconstruction: The First Civil Rights Revolution

Reel Memories: Film and the Popular History of the Civil Rights Movement

Rethinking Jim Crow Segregation

Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement in America: The View from the North

Rewriting History: How one teacher, three high school students, and a newspaperman brought justice in the Mississippi Burning case, 41 years after the crime

S

School Desegregation and the History of Brown v. Board of Education

Seedbed of the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Prequel Story

Separate and Unequal: Racial Oppression in America

Serial Nomination of U. S. Civil Rights Sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List

Sex and the Civil Rights Movement

Southern Jews and the Civil Rights Movement

Southern Religion and Civil Rights

St. Louis before Ferguson: Region, Race, and Civil Rights in a Twentieth-Century City

St. Louis, the Border South, and the Historiography of the Black Freedom Movement

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Subjects, Citizens, Christians: Reconstruction's Religious History

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten History of Civil Rights in the North

T

"The White Mrs. Brown": Esther Brown and the Jewish Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Taking it to the Streets: Chicanx and Puerto Rican Protest Movements

The American Civil Rights Movement in Global Perspective

The Black Panther Party and the Search for Historical Truth

The Campaign for Civil Rights in the National Capital during Reconstruction

The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement and the Rise of Modern Black Conservatism: Rethinking Alliances, Allegiances, and the Complexities of Political Culture

The Civil Rights Movement as Usable Past

The Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered: A Battle against the "Plantation Mentality"

The Civil Rights Movement: America's Best Idea

The Enduring Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

The FBI vs. Martin Luther King

The Forward Together / Moral Monday Movement

The Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservatism

The Inner Life and Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Ku Klux Klan, Yesterday and Today

The Law of Hospitality and the Struggle for Civil Rights in America

The Legacies of A. Philip Randolph: Civil Rights, Labor, and the New Black Politics

The Legacies of Everyday Struggle: Memory and Trauma in Grenada, Mississippi, in the Post-Civil Rights Era

The Long Civil Rights Movement

The Long Civil Rights Movement: The 1940s

The Mississippi of the West: Civil Rights in Las Vegas

The Modern Civil Rights Movement

The Montgomery Bus Boycott as a Women's Movement for Dignity

The Murder of Medgar Evers: Is it ever too late to do the right thing?

The New Civil Rights History

The Post-World War II Black Freedom Struggle

The Power of the Mass Media: Reconsidering Civil Rights and Antipoverty Movements after World War II

The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project: How a Public History Project Changed the Law, Changed School Curricula, and More

The Southern Civil Rights Movement in History and Memory

The Speculative Archive of Incarceration

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement through Music

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

“The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Movement"

U

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Until There Is Justice: Anna Arnold Hedgeman and America's Freedom Struggles

V

Violence, Violation, and the Long Civil Rights Movement

W

"What Is Good for One Racial Classification Is Not Necessarily Good for Another": The Tension between Desegregation and Bilingual Education as Avenues of Educational Civil Rights Redress

Where Do We Go from Here? King's Dream and the Trump Presidency

White Flight: Segregationist "Rights" and Resistance

Why Brown v. Board of Education Was a Hard Case

Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency

Women and the Civil Rights Movement: A History of Feminism in Black Freedom Struggles

Word Warriors: American Indian Political Activists and the United States