No history of the civil rights era in the South would be complete without an account of the remarkable life and career of Grace Towns Hamilton, the first Africa

Running for Freedom, Fourth Edition, updates historian Steven Lawson’s classic volume detailing the history of African-American civil rights and black politic

After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal cou

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Ove

This text draws on interviews with almost 200 people, both black and white, who worked for, or actively resisted, the freedom movement in Georgia. Beginning bef