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A Black radical feminist organization of the 1970s, the Combahee River Collective outline their political ideology in their organization’s statement. They argue that race, gender and class oppression intersect to form new levels of inequalities experienced by Black women.

This Appeal editorial from 1893 refutes the description in the Chicago Herald of conditions experienced by African Americans while traveling on Southern railroads.

The press release from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) details the organization’s plans to end slums in Chicago.

Although raised in a prosperous and prestigious African-American home in Tuskegee, Ala., Sammy Younge found himself drawn most to the civil rights movement. While the cause cost him his life, his actions and determination helped to transform this Southern city.

Cleveland Sellers provides a testimonial of his experience with the draft for the Vietnam War, the racism of Selective Service and his antiwar orientation.