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The Last American Lynching: Michael Donald’s 1981 Murder by the Ku Klux Klan and the Mother’s Lawsuit That Bankrupted a Hate Empire

joe bodegoMarch 22, 2026March 22, 2026

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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...

Civil Rights

Julian Bond

joe bodegoMarch 13, 2026March 13, 2026

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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...

Civil Rights

Reverend James Joseph Reeb

joe bodegoMarch 11, 2026March 11, 2026

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Unitarian Universalist Minister and Civil Rights Martyr James Joseph Reeb was an American clergyman whose life and brutal death at the age of 38 became...

Civil Rights History

Horace and Sara Baker

joe bodegoMarch 7, 2026March 7, 2026

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In August 1963, just two days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington,...

Civil Rights Education

Webb v. School District No. 90 (1949)

joe bodegoFebruary 9, 2026February 9, 2026

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A Landmark Step Toward School Desegregation in Kansas In the post-World War II era, as suburban communities in the United States grew rapidly, issues of...

Civil Rights History Politics

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act

joe bodegoJanuary 15, 2026January 27, 2026

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Justice Delayed, But Not Denied In a landmark moment for American civil rights, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law on...

Civil Rights

Belton v. Gebhart

joe bodegoOctober 28, 2025October 28, 2025

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The Delaware Precursor to School Desegregation In the annals of American civil rights history, few cases loom as large as Brown v. Board of Education...

Civil Rights Education History Science - Technology

Einstein’s Stand: Defying Racial Barriers at Lincoln University in 1946

joe bodegoJuly 25, 2025July 26, 2025

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In 1946, Albert Einstein, the world-renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, made a bold and symbolic gesture by visiting Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the first degree-granting...

Civil Rights History

Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam – The Killers of Emmett Till

joe bodegoJuly 19, 2025July 20, 2025

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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955, a crime that became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights...

Civil Rights

Felix Tijerina

joe bodegoJune 4, 2025June 12, 2025

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Felix Tijerina (1905–1965) was a Mexican-American businessman, community leader, and advocate for Mexican-American rights, born in Sugar Land, Texas. Raised in a working-class family, Tijerina...

Ericka Huggins

George Kephart

William Birch

John C. Cook

Charles M. Price

Ona Judge

The Last American Lynching: Michael Donald’s 1981…

The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre

Julian Bond

Reverend James Joseph Reeb

Horace and Sara Baker

Indians as the Preferred Filler Workforce

Zara Cully

Why Don’t We Call Them by Their…

Sheriff Walter Clark

The Lynching of Rubin Stacy

How Cadillac Dealers Were Discouraged from Selling…

Webb v. School District No. 90 (1949)

The Quiet Shift – Why Many African…

Senator Richard B. Russell Jr

Category : Civil Rights

The Last American Lynching: Michael Donald’s 1981 Murder by the Ku Klux Klan and the Mother’s Lawsuit That Bankrupted a Hate Empire

Julian Bond

Reverend James Joseph Reeb

Horace and Sara Baker

Webb v. School District No. 90 (1949)

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act

Belton v. Gebhart

Einstein’s Stand: Defying Racial Barriers at Lincoln University in 1946

Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam – The Killers of Emmett Till

Felix Tijerina