Civil Rights

Alicia Reve' Like plays Nella, a bright patch in an Alabama family whose quilts tell stories of segregation and the civil rights movement. Last February,…

Despite a musical career that has spanned decades and provided inspiration for the civil rights movement, until recently the only information available…

In the summer of 1963, hundreds of thousands across the nation converged on Washington, D.C. to march for jobs and freedom.Meanwhile, back in St. Louis,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 30, 2013: The world has little noted nor long remembered what Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 21, 2013 - It was just after 11 p.m., and the weather was clear. The driver was an attractive…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: In 1963, when it appeared that blacks protesting the discriminatory practices at Jefferson Bank and…

On Sunday, September 15, 1963, a 14-year old Carolyn McKinstry witnessed an event that would change her life forever – the bombing of the Sixteenth Street…

As the daughter of civil rights figure and U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young, Paula Young Shelton found herself surrounded by many an activist during her…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 24, 2012 - Ann Bliss Malone Hunter first felt the sting of discrimination as an African American…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 26, 2012 - Talk about your awkward situations. Here was John Seigenthaler, founder of the First…