Nation Topics - Civil Rights Movement | The Nation

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

The Cross of Redemption tells the story of James Baldwin as a working writer: casual, lax and preachy, but also honest, angry and brilliant.

Why is Haley Barbour so eager to turn Mississippi into a civil rights tourist attraction?

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

Barack Obama stands on the shoulders of many as he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. One set of those shoulders belongs to Jesse Jackson.

Democrats have come a long way from the first Denver convention a century ago.

Several new books on Martin Luther King takes a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.

In Defying Dixie, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore seeks to reclaim the radical origins of the modern civil rights struggle.

Is there more to racism in America than intolerance and immorality? Four books shed light.

No single person can be the agent of change: the vision must come from all of us.