It now proposes new crimes that could criminalize almost any protestor and give police broad powers. Introduction...
Civil Rights
Cartter played a minor-yet-not-insignificant role at two fateful moments in the life of Abraham Lincoln. By Ann...
Meredith is a civil rights hero who doesn’t fit neatly into political categories. By Aram GoudsouzianBizot Family...
She paid a price with police beatings that left her permanently disabled. When Louis Draper took Fannie Lou...
The Founders were clear that circumstances, like a pandemic, can arise that require public officials to take...
Biden officials are working to address police reform through executive orders. By April RyanReporter Civil Rights attorney Ben...
Private organizations funneling money to law enforcement agencies are “protecting corporate interests and enabling state-sanctioned violence.” Many...
Thaddeus Stevens was as an ardent abolitionist who championed civil rights for decades. In 1813, a young...
Law enforcement agencies typically need to provide a compelling reason to collect and store data about members...
Politics and the running of the government were limited to a small number of wealthy people. Radicals...
Digging deeply into the nation’s past can help illuminate the struggles facing the U.S. today. By Dr....
Highlighting the trends that have defined us from the 1920s to now. Presentation by The History Channel...
From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding...
This was the generation of suffragists who challenged society’s expectations of what it meant to be a...
Republican-controlled state legislatures across the U.S. are enacting new restrictions on voter participation that target non-whites. America...
Police brutality is an issue that affects many across the world, but in the United States, it...
Although LGBTQ+ people in every region of the world face marginalization and repression, human rights have steadily...
The For the People Act aims to fix an election system that pushes people of color to...
Unresolved race matters from the past intersect with twenty-first century activism to counter the continued devaluation of...
Honoring the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. My project, Mug Shot Portraits: Women of the...
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as...
The civil rights that various groups have fought for within the United States. Introduction What is the...
In the South, electoral politics remained a parade of electoral fraud, voter intimidation, and race-baiting. Just as...
Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow was the name...
The first real challenge to the constitutionality of state segregation laws came in 1938. Brown v. Board...
How suffragists first used hunger strikes as a form of resistance and protest. Introduction Asylum seekers held...
They ultimately achieved significant concessions for fair employment practices for African Americans in San Francisco. By Ammar...
Events during the movement included the Occupation of Alcatraz, the Trail of Broken Treaties, the Occupation of...
Not only was the children’s march relegated to lesser news, it was delivered without many pictures. Images...
A group of 200 middle aged and older white men gathered in Hemming Park armed with baseball...