The school segregation issue was ripe for being brought to the first tier of social concerns. Introduction...
Racism
The story behind Douglass‘s only novella. Frederick Douglass is best known as an autobiographer and lecturer. His...
The jury weighed whether to believe a white man with questionable motivations or an uneducated black man....
Police brutality disproportionately affects Black communities, causing depression, anxiety and trauma. Introduction The release of footage showing...
Rev. Walker worked closely with King and would bring King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail to public attention....
We will celebrate even this day even when our country has a gap between its ideals and...
Within the first six months of the first session of the 88th Congress, over 100 civil rights...
Dr. King was a giant, but history is also made by ordinary people standing up for what’s...
The violence against African-Americans in Selma had a domino effect. Introduction Late in the afternoon of March...
Conservatives have a long history of contorting his words to further political goals at odds with his...
There are dozens of these groups on both sides of the Atlantic with martial names drawn from...
From the anti-slavery movement to civil rights, African Americans have defined freedom and shaped the American experience....
We must denounce white nationalism as the world is threatened by increasing political support for this ideology....
One of the saddest truths about eugenics is that it never went away. Introduction When A-level grades...
Textbooks in the early 20th century said Reconstruction was a gross error and black people needed to...
What was needed then – and in succeeding decades as political defeats – was to keep hope...
It is is due largely to huge contributions from Christian nationalist PACs. Just over a decade ago,...
The rise of white nationalism and the violence of extremist militia groups is a dangerous domestic terrorism...
A white mob dragged an innocent man’s body to City Hall and burned it before a crowd...
They don’t talk about lethal white supremacy in Florida. It hurts Republicans’ feelings. Introduction It took Ron...
Whites enjoyed the highest standard of living in all of Africa while the black majority remained disadvantaged....
Republicans are more likely to agree that “some violence may be necessary to get the country back...
There have been many other killings of this kind in America’s history. In May 2022, a white...
Cotton oligarchs worked to undercut African American demands for fair wages and human rights by replacing them....
It can be seen as far back as the “White Hands” ad that late North Carolina Sen....
Things changed when the GOP opposed voting rights for Blacks after the first half of the 20th...
Local control over school funding leads to uneven resources between districts. Introduction Nearly 70 years ago –...
This legislation was asked for by President Grant and passed within one month of when he sent...
In places where local laws did not require segregation, Jim Crow harassment enforced it. Introduction The Citizens’ Councils (commonly...
The first time the specter of interracial sex was used by Whites to foment hysteria occurred in...