Civil Rights
Supreme Court OK’d Deporting Japanese-American Citizens to the Desert
Repudiated decision upheld presidential power to counter perceived national security threats
Civil Rights
This Week in History – Women’s Suffrage 1869
The push for women to get the vote was disrupted by the Civil War, but the movement began to heat up again with Reconstruction.
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Insidious Inspiration: How Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
American statutes barring interracial sex and marriage were model for anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
Civil War Figures
Manassas: How This Southern City Came To Be More Than a Battlefield
Destroyed in the war, isolated Virginia rail junction was rebuilt in a spirit of reconciliation
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Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment
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Belle Da Costa Greene: Passing Fancy
A black activist's daughter reinvented herself on the other side of the color line
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Birthright Citizenship: Who Gets to Be an American
From Dred Scott to anchor babies, 'Born in the USA' has caused hot debate
Korean War Figures
Jesse L. Brown: The U.S. Navy’s First Black Aviator
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr.’s First Assassination Attempt
A decade before he was gunned down, a madwoman stuck a shiv in the civil rights leader's chest.
Civil Rights
Bloodshed in ‘Magic Valley’
In 1915, as Anglos displaced Hispanics on the U.S. side of the lower Rio Grande Valley, Mexican Sedicionistas exploited tensions to foment a race war
Civil Rights
Insight: Ahead of Her Time
Ella Lonn’s publications, in both quantity and topical reach, made her the most important woman in the field between the 1920s and the 1950s.
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SCOTUS 101: Closing Down Covenants
SHELLEY V. KRAEMER, 334 US1 (1948)—RESTRICTIVE REAL ESTATE COVENANTS
