This video is no longer available. Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling ...

It was a sweltering August day in 1939, and William "Buddy" Evans was face-to-face with a police officer in the Alexandria Free Library. Looking up from the pages of his book, the 19-year-old had one ...

It was the quietest of protests. Five young African American men sat reading at separate tables in Alexandria’s new whites-only library on Queen Street. They had just been refused library cards; in ...

Awareness among campus students about the sit-in in the Anthropology Library is growing as the movement gains traction. According to anthropology doctoral candidate Jesús Gutiérrez, who works as the ...

Update 2/28/2022: This story has been updated to include additional information about the library's closure. The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library will remain open after approximately 40 students and ...