It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

Well, you probably should. Not only was Cox a legendary folk singer, but he was known, too, as a fighter for social justice ...

This is the greatest love, a love supreme. The Civil Rights Movement captured this ethic. While Coltrane was soulfully revolutionizing jazz, the Black church was composing their own paean to the ...

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Civil Rights Heritage Center holds talk with jazz flutist about women in jazz ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

Though Cole is primarily remembered for his jazz and pop hits, the emotive power ... danger Black public figures faced and galvanized Cole’s commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. It is important to ...

“The Disappearance of Miss Scott” reacquaints viewers with a jazz virtuoso who was the ... “I think that there’s a perception that the civil rights movement was only in the 1960s ...

His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...