In this issue, we look at the forces behind and inside the single most important social and political advancements of the last half-century in the South: The Civil Rights Movement. This special issue includes: a never-before published interview with groundbreaker Alex Haley; a provocative investigation of the news—good and bad—about racial attitudes over the last thirty years for southerners and for the rest of the country; an insightful retrospective of Harry Golden, daring satirist and Civil Rights pioneer; a view form inside southern communities as they try to reconcile histories of Klan violence with broader understandings of the organizations and culture that undergird social unrest; a tour through the Civil Rights museums in the South that shows their power to inform—and transform—a new generation of southerners; snapshots from interviews from the Southern Oral History Program’s ongoing study of “The Long Civil Rights Movement”; an interview with Civil Rights lawyer H. T. Lockard, who reveals the inner-workings of the Movement’s early legal maneuverings during his time on its front lines; and much more.