Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Charles Sherrod: An Unheralded Giant of the Civil Rights Struggle

by Ansley L. Quiros

"Charles Sherrod is the most important civil rights figure you've never heard of"--fighting for six decades in southwest Georgia, persevering through incremental gains after the publicity of the Albany Movement faded. 

Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021

by Margaret Burnham

Robert Moses's commitment to grassroots democratic organizing was best expressed through listening rather than speaking, and purposeful following rather than leading. 

The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis

by Jelani Cobb

"Lewis, like his peers Andrew Young, Marion Barry, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, transitioned into elected office as the post from which he would undertake this work. It was not an easy undertaking."