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...
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 was an influential American social activist, leader, and politician. Born on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee, Bond dedicated his life to the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...