Disability activism — Americans advocating for policies that are in the best interest of those living with...
Civil Rights
Civil rights history follows struggles to secure equal protection, voting rights, access to public life, and freedom from discrimination through activism, legislation, court decisions, and political resistance.
By Dr. Kurt Von Daacke Professor of History and Assistant Dean University of Virginia Between June 19...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Civil Liberties and the Bill...
The 8th Quinquennial Council Meeting of the ICW in Vienna / Public Domain By Dr. Leila J....
This group portrait monument to the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement, which won women the right...
“There needs to be a new conversation about racism, in specific, and the system of white male...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , chats with African-Americans during a door-to-door campaign in 1964. AP Photo/JAB By...
This June marks the 74th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, a series of week-long race riots...
“By even considering this discriminatory order he has broken his promise to be a president for all...
Photograph of Emerson in later life / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Phyllis Cole and Dr. Wesley...
Martin Luther King Jr. statue. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters By Dr. Timothy Joseph / 02.01.2016 Associate Professor of Classics...
By David L. Hudson, Jr. / 11.16.2016 You better not curse within hearing distance of a church...
Activists picketing at a demonstration for housing equality while uniformed American Nazi Party members counter-protest in the...
The feds say they can secretly read all your email. / Shutterstock By Dr. Clark D. Cunningham...
By Ashley Farmer / 06.03.2016 On October 2, 1962 journalists at the Chicago Defender interviewed Mae Mallory,...
California is the fifth state to legalize aid in dying. Hands image via www.shutterstock.com. By David Orentlicher,...
An anti-Trump protest in April. (Photo: A. Jones/flickr/cc) Cleveland’s “extreme limitations” on protests, laid out on Wednesday,...
theodysseyonline.com By Dr. Anthony McCosker Professor of Media and Communications Swinburne University of Technology Social Media+Society 1(2),...
By Dr. Jason Morgan Ward Associate Professor of History Mississippi State University African American Intellectual History Society...