today in black history

April 27, 2024

Human rights activist and author Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on this date in 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama.


Road to Freedom

One of the most significant exhibitions devoted to photography of the Civil Rights Movement will be presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The exhibition, “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968” will open Nov. 8 at the S. Dillon Ripley Center International Gallery on the National Mall in Washington, DC.  It will be accompanied by an exhibition of contemporary art titled “After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy” Read More