Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on an Alabama bus, another civil rights activist, Barbara Pope, ...

The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate ...

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

To make a change for the FUTURE, we must remember the past. Formed in 1905, the Niagara Movement was an organization of Blacks who attempted a work of legal redress for the oppression of Black ...

February is Black History Month. There are numerous events in Western New York to honor those who came before and celebrate ...

Black History Month reminds us that it’s an appropriate time to reflect on our nation’s relentless struggles for freedom, especially those courageous people whose heroic efforts advanced the cause of ...

The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

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