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The Civil Rights Leader ‘Almost Nobody Knows About’ Gets a Statue in the U.S. Capitol

At a ceremony Wednesday, leaders remembered the Ponca chief whose court case established that Native Americans were people.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 20, 2019
Political cartoon about Reconstruction.

The Buried Promise of the Reconstruction Amendments

The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.
by Eric Foner, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on September 9, 2019
Political cartoon of Columbia giving the Civil Rights bill to a Black man.

What Are These Civil Rights Laws?

The context and aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
by Daniel Brook via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 27, 2019

A Bureaucratic Prologue to Same-Sex Marriage

The weddings made possible by local government and broad legal language.
by Michael Waters via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 24, 2019
A rent strike in Harlem, New York City, September 1919.

The Fight for Rent Control

In the early twentieth century, immigrant tenant organizers made rent control laws a reality. Today, working-class New Yorkers still fight for housing justice.
by Daniel Wortel-London via Dissent on June 5, 2019
Illustration of Peurifoy and others attempting to find homosexuals within the federal government.

The Homophobic Hysteria of the Lavender Scare

Despite a thriving queer community in Washington, the 1950s State Department fired gay and lesbian workers en masse.
by Kazimir Lee, Dorian Alexander via The Nib on May 31, 2019
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gives a speech celebrating ADL’s centennial in 2013.

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems

The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.
by Emmaia Gelman via Boston Review on May 23, 2019

Athlete-Activists Before and After Kaepernick

Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.
by Louis Moore, Jules Boykoff via Public Books on May 14, 2019
Three Black men in a field wearing Baltimore Black Sox uniforms.

Bill Bruton’s Fight for the Full Integration of Baseball

Louis Moore discusses Bill Bruton and the erasure of his activism towards integration in Major League Baseball.
by Louis Moore via Black Perspectives on May 9, 2019
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'Not a Racist Bone in His Body’: The Origins of the Default Defense Against Racism

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.
by Justin Gomer, Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on April 11, 2019

Remembering Emmett Till

The ruins of a country store suggest that locals have neglected the memory of Emmett Till’s murder.
by Dave Tell via Places Journal on April 1, 2019

Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers

How a team of lawyers exposed lies about police violence.
by Flint Taylor via Literary Hub on February 25, 2019

The Black Radical You’ve Never Heard Of

T. Thomas Fortune changed Black History, and seems to have been forgotten.
by Adam Serwer, Jasmine Walls via The Nib on February 22, 2019

When King was Dangerous

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.
by Alex Gourevitch via Jacobin on January 21, 2019
Martin Luther King Junior in a picket line wearing a sign that reads "employees on strike for a living wage."

Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man

Most people think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader. What many don’t know is that he also championed labor unionism.
by Peter Cole via The Conversation on January 18, 2019

Frederick Douglass Forum

An online forum on the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass.
by David W. Blight, Leigh Fought, Manisha Sinha, Chris Shell, Noelle Trent, Neil Roberts, Christopher Bonner via Black Perspectives on November 30, 2018
Massachusetts State House

Civil Rights Without the Supreme Court

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.
by Millington Bergeson-Lockwood via We're History on November 7, 2018

MLK: What We Lost

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 18, 2018

The Struggle Over the Meaning of the 14th Amendment Continues

The fight over the 150-year old language in the Constitution is a battle for the very heart of the American republic.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on July 10, 2018

Citizens: 150 Years of the 14th Amendment

In 1868, black activists had already been promoting birthright as the basis of their national belonging for nearly half a century.
by Martha S. Jones via Public Books on July 9, 2018

How Corporations Won Their Civil Rights

The Court got it right—but it's not a conclusion we should be entirely comfortable with.
by Robert VerBruggen via The American Conservative on July 3, 2018
How a group of Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island and their own destinies.

This Land is Our Land: The Native American Occupation of Alcatraz

From November 1969 to June 1971, 89 Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz, and their own destinies.
by Mariah-Rose Marie M, Eleri Harris via The Nib on June 11, 2018

How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman

Wilma Rudolph won three Olympic golds and was among the first athletes to use her celebrity to fight for civil rights.
by Kate Siber via Outside on June 8, 2018

Robert F. Kennedy Is Remembered as a Liberal Icon. Here's the Truth About His Politics

For many American liberals, RFK became a symbol of not just a better past, but also a better future that might have been.
by David E. Kaiser via TIME on June 5, 2018

How the Nazi Regime's Pink Triangle Symbol Was Repurposed for LGBTQ Pride

The symbol was born from a dark time in history.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on May 31, 2018

The Disputed Second Life of an American Internment Camp

A debate over a planned fence around the site where people of Japanese ancestry, mostly American citizens, were forcibly interned.
by Alastair Boone via CityLab on May 24, 2018

A Forgotten War on Women

Scott W. Stern’s book documents a decades-long program to incarcerate “promiscuous” women.
by Kim Kelly via The New Republic on May 22, 2018
James Baldwin.

The Forgotten Baldwin

Baldwin demands that the Atlanta child murders be more than a mere media spectacle or crime story, and that black lives matter.
by Joseph Vogel via Boston Review on May 14, 2018

For Democracy, At Home and Abroad

On VE Day, we remember black Americans' Double V campaign: victory in Europe against fascism, victory at home against racism.
by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on May 8, 2018
Inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, AL.
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How the New Monument to Lynching Unravels a Historical Lie

Lies about history long protected lynching.
by Nina Silber via Made By History on May 2, 2018
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