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...
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
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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...
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...
Reverend James Joseph Reeb
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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...
Horace and Sara Baker
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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,...
Webb v. School District No. 90 (1949)
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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...
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act
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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...
Belton v. Gebhart
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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...
Einstein’s Stand: Defying Racial Barriers at Lincoln University in 1946
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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...
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam – The Killers of Emmett Till
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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...