civil rights

A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.

On John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock” and Japanese America.

Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality

To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.

The president didn’t want to go too far on civil rights in 1948, fearing it would cost him reelection. But an obscure mayor changed the race — and his party.

We should find inspiration in their goals today.

One of the thousands of white Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War and a rare example of a slave owner who changed his views on race.

The 1982 attack against Vincent Chin redefined hate crimes and energized a push for today’s stronger legal protections.

A careful examination of the Privileges or Immunities Clause shows what we lost 150 years ago.

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.

The demand of antislavery activists for accused fugitives to be guaranteed a jury trial was an implicit recognition of Black citizenship.

How a landmark Supreme Court decision was shaped by the racist idea that poor children can’t learn.

Historian Adam Lee Cilli effectively illustrates the centrality of Black Pittsburgh within the larger Black Freedom Struggle.

A glaring portrait of the human cost of law enforcement officers who claim to be above the law.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Trump champions “law and order” while calling for the Constitution’s suspension. But there’s no tension between the two.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Georgia’s own history highlights what out-organizing voter suppression really entails.