This journal article excerpt describes how the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to undermine the Civil Rights Movement by targeting some activists as communistic sympathizers. Eslanda Goode Robeson used her testimony as a platform to speak out against American hypocrisy and injustice.
In this blog post, Steve Locke—a college professor of 13 years—details being wrongfully detained by the police while walking to get lunch all because they believed he matched a description.
Septima Clark was an African-American educator and civil rights activist. The following excerpt is from a 1976 interview with Clark for the Southern Oral History Program Collection.