Since 2018, The Nation has hosted a US Civil Rights Tour led by documentary film maker André Robert Lee.
Traveling across the South to the most important sites of the Civil Rights era, meeting with people who lived through that time of upheaval and promise, we come face-to-face with history: That confrontation can be nothing short of transformational.
To understand the enormity of this moment, one needs only to turn to the American South for the living, breathing memory of the struggle for civil rights,” explains documentarian Lee.
In more than a century and a half since the first issue rolled off the presses, The Nation has kept up the fight, leading the crusade against lynching, helping to found the NAACP in 1909 (our owner at the time, Oswald Garrison Villard—a grandson of the abolitionist—lent space in our office building for the group’s first headquarters), and playing a prominent role in covering the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
ABOUT: André Robert Lee is a teacher, producer, and acclaimed documentary filmmaker who has led multiple civil-rights tours of the American South over the past several years.
