Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964): A Landmark Victory for Civil Rights and the Commerce Clause In the summer of 1964, President...
Category : Civil Rights
Cecil J. Williams
0135
Cecil J. Williams (born November 26, 1937) is an acclaimed American photographer, publisher, author, inventor, and civil rights documentarian from Orangeburg, South Carolina. He is...
The Federal Anti-Lynching Legislation: A Century-Long Struggle for Justice
0153
Lynching—the extrajudicial killing of individuals, often by mobs, typically as a form of racial terror—cast a long shadow over American history, particularly in the post-Reconstruction...
Jack Chatfield
0181
Jack Chatfield (July 20, 1942 – September 18, 2014) was an American historian, educator, and civil rights activist known for his courageous work with the...
Sheriff’s Deputies in Gadsden, Alabama, Use Cattle Prods to Torture Civil Rights Demonstrators
0186
On June 18, 1963, law enforcement officers in Gadsden, Alabama, deployed electric cattle prods against hundreds of Black civil rights protesters during a major sit-in...
Rev. George Washington Lee
0605
Rev. George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African American Baptist minister, entrepreneur, civil rights leader, and voting rights activist...
The Chicago Real Estate Board’s Expulsion of Members Selling Homes to Black Families
0481
On May 4, 1921, the Chicago Real Estate Board took a decisive step to enforce racial segregation in housing. In a unanimous vote, the Board...
United States v. Cruikshank
0678
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...
The Last American Lynching: Michael Donald’s 1981 Murder by the Ku Klux Klan and the Mother’s Lawsuit That Bankrupted a Hate Empire
0933
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...
Julian Bond
0563
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...