Dr. Derryn Moten is the acting chair of the history department at Alabama State University and one of the foremost experts on the Modern Civil Rights Movement and Southern American Culture. He can be reached at dmoten@alasu.edu
Liberation had finally reached the shores of Texas. The date June 19, 1865,became Juneteenth, the oldest annual Black freedom celebration in the United States.
Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC, Rev. Joseph E. Lowery died on March 27, 2020. He and his clerical brother, Dr. Martin...
On February 25, 1960, approximately 32 Alabama State College students staged the state’s first sit-in demonstration when a number of them occupied the cafeteria...