United States v. Cruikshank
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876) is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision from the Reconstruction Era that significantly limited federal authority to...
Author : joe bodego
Ericka Huggins
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Ericka Huggins (née Jenkins), born January 5, 1948, in Washington, D.C., is a human rights activist, poet, educator, former political prisoner, and leading member of...
George Kephart
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George Kephart (February 7, 1811 – August 26, 1888) was a 19th-century American slave trader, landowner, farmer, and later philanthropist from Maryland. He played a...
William Birch
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William Birch (often referenced as the Birch partner in Price, Birch & Co.; some deeds and contemporary accounts link a Henry Birch as a partner...
John C. Cook
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John C. Cook, commonly known as J. C. Cook and identified with Washington, D.C., was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the antebellum South....
Charles M. Price
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Charles M. Price (of Montgomery County, Maryland) was a 19th-century landowner, enslaver, and businessman in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area during the lead-up to and...
The Last American Lynching: Michael Donald’s 1981 Murder by the Ku Klux Klan and the Mother’s Lawsuit That Bankrupted a Hate Empire
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On the night of March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald—a young Black man with no criminal record or involvement in drugs—became the...
The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre
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The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre of March 17, 1886, stands as one of the most brutal and unpunished acts of racial violence in post-Reconstruction America....
Julian Bond
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Julian Bond was an influential American social activist, leader, and politician. Born on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee, Bond dedicated his life to the...