Fifteenth Amendment

Largely forgotten today, Albion W. Tourgée’s legislation could have prevented Moore v. Harper.

A popular writer’s 1829 self-help book ‘The Frugal Housewife’ was based on the same democratic principles that made her a champion of the abolitionist cause.

Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project explores the meaning of freedom through the example of one extraordinary life.

Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.

John Marshall Harlan's relationship with an enslaved man who grew up in his home showed how respect could transcend barriers and point a path to freedom.

One hundred and twenty five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, there are still lessons to be gleaned from the case.

One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States targeted Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles.

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.

The selection of African American Sen. Hiram Revels in 1870 offered great hope — but it was soon dashed.

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.

A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.

A rally at Faneuil Hall in support of the Fourteenth Amendment and congressional investigation of southern disfranchisement.

A look at voter rights through political cartoons.

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

With democracy hanging in the balance in 2020, the Court is clearly playing a decisive and destructive role. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before.

The centennial of women’s suffrage which guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at its very core.

It is fair to ask whether Grant’s prewar experiences define the entirety of his character, and who sets the bar for which public figures deserve commemoration.

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.