Civil rights

Civil rights forum convenes academics, activists, and advocates to deliberate urban policy issues

First roundtable focused on demographic trends, organizing and next-generation leadership, education, and poverty


Kim Grimshaw Bolton

The new civil rights movement doesn’t need an MLK

In op-ed, Prof. Cathy Cohen argues that grassroots movements and digital activism have replaced need for Civil Rights leaders


Nothing New in the Civil Rights Movement, but the Faces

In op-ed, Prof. Charles Payne argues that rather than starting a new movement for black equality, we need to 'finish the old one'


Remembering ‘Freedom Summer’

UChicago alumni recount the transformative events of 1964


Susie Allen

When King made history at UChicago

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave three ‘glorious’ speeches on campus between 1956 and 1966