Tag Archives: Civil Rights

Latinx Heritage Month: The Chicano Movement

Movements for civil rights in the 1960s around the United States inspired people from different...

Little Rock Nine

Concrete benches line a reflecting pool ahead of a giant building with the words Little...

Freedom Summer

On the side of an old country road in Neshoba County, Mississippi stands a lonely...

Fannie Lou Hamer: IWD 2023

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the youngest of 20 children. After reaching the...

How do we move forward together? Q&A with Rev. Dr. McKinstry

For the Rev. Dr. Carolyn McKinstry, the head-spinning events of 2020 felt purposeful-- as if...

Civil rights advocate and friend of the Pilgrimage, Dr. Reavis Mitchell, passes at 72.

One of Nashville’s most well-known historians, and a longtime administrator at Fisk University, has died...