Civil Rights History

By Mike Miller (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Held April 15-18, 2010, at Shaw University, the nation’s oldest historically Black institution of higher education, SNCC’s 50th Anniversary Reunion Program notes on its cover page, “This conference was planned in strict accordance with SNCC’s principles of decision-making. Therefore, we don’t really know … [Read more...] about “SNCC—the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—Gathers 50 Years After It Started: A Report on the Reunion” by Mike Miller (July-August 2010 P&R Issue) 

By Thomas W. Sanchez & Marc Brenman (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article is the authors’ updated version of their Introduction to their 2007 book The Right to Transportation: Moving to Equity. We then asked several transportation-knowledgeable commentators to respond—that Forum appears directly following the article — CH Transportation is … [Read more...] about “Transportation and Civil Rights” by Thomas W. Sanchez & Marc Brennan (July-August 2010 P&R Issue)

By James Pope (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The history of African and African-American struggles for liberation interacting is as multiple and organic as its various manifestations—Negritude, Black Consciousness Movement, Black Arts Movement, to name a few. What these manifestations had in common was their desire to strengthen and unify all those of … [Read more...] about “Exploring the Parallels Between the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the African Liberation Movement” by James Pope (May-June 2010 P&R Issue)

By David Ciscel & Michael Honey (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In 1968, African Americans in Memphis had good reason to hope for a future of racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 promised equal treatment in public accommodations and employment, while the 1965 Voting Rights Act promised equal access to the ballot. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. … [Read more...] about “Memphis Since King: Race and Labor in the City” by David Ciscel & Michael Honey (March-April 2009 P&R Issue)

By Daniel Levine (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Bayard Rustin is most remembered as the organizer who made the 1963 March on Washington happen. He organized or did himself the day- to-day grunt work like arranging transportation and renting facilities. He also worked on grand plans and vision for that day. But he was much more than that. He had been one of … [Read more...] about “Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement” by Daniel Levine (January-February 2009 P&R Issue)