Civil Rights

Sheriff’s Deputies in Gadsden, Alabama, Use Cattle Prods to Torture Civil Rights Demonstrators

joe bodegoJune 19, 2026June 20, 2026

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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...

Civil Rights History Religion

Rev. George Washington Lee

joe bodegoMay 8, 2026May 8, 2026

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Rev. George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African American Baptist minister, entrepreneur, civil rights leader, and voting rights activist...

Civil Rights History

The Chicago Real Estate Board’s Expulsion of Members Selling Homes to Black Families

joe bodegoMay 5, 2026May 16, 2026

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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...

Civil Rights History

United States v. Cruikshank

joe bodegoApril 14, 2026April 15, 2026

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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...

Civil Rights History Lynchings

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, 2026June 8, 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

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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

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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 Lynchings

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act

joe bodegoJanuary 15, 2026June 8, 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...

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Category : Civil Rights

Sheriff’s Deputies in Gadsden, Alabama, Use Cattle Prods to Torture Civil Rights Demonstrators

Rev. George Washington Lee

The Chicago Real Estate Board’s Expulsion of Members Selling Homes to Black Families

United States v. Cruikshank

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