The Progress
of a People
African-American history and culture from the
early 19th through the early 20th
centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and
1900.
African-American
Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Black America's quest for equality from the early
national period through the20th century.
Time
archives/Civil Rights
Follow the progress of America's march toward racial
equality with these highlights from TIME's coverage over the years.
Murder
in Mississippi
Time's coverage of three young civil
rights workers in 1964 in a case made famous by the film Mississippi
Burning.
Baseball,
the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson
When he stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15, 1947,
Jackie Robinson became the first African American in the 20th century to
play baseball in the major leagues.
"I have
a dream ..."
Hear Martin Luther King's speech at the march on
Washington, Aug. 28, 1963
Criminal
Justice after O.J.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz uses examples from the Simpson
case in discussing America's criminal justice system
Breaking Racial
Barriers: African Americans
Selected portraits from the 1920s in the Harmon
Foundation Collection
The
Disability Rights Movement
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Americans
with Disabilities Act