Field Notes on the Republic
Juneteenth, and the Distance Between a Law and ...
The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. The enslaved people of Texas did not learn of their freedom for two and a half years. Juneteenth marks that gap,...
Juneteenth, and the Distance Between a Law and ...
The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. The enslaved people of Texas did not learn of their freedom for two and a half years. Juneteenth marks that gap,...
Equal Protection, the Fourteenth Amendment's Qu...
Some of the most powerful sentences in American law are also the shortest. A close reading of the Fourteenth Amendment's sixteen words on the equal protection of the laws, what...
Equal Protection, the Fourteenth Amendment's Qu...
Some of the most powerful sentences in American law are also the shortest. A close reading of the Fourteenth Amendment's sixteen words on the equal protection of the laws, what...
Ida B. Wells and the Discipline of the Record
In 1892 a young Memphis editor lost three friends to a lynch mob, and what Ida B. Wells did next invented much of how investigative journalism is done. Facing a...
Ida B. Wells and the Discipline of the Record
In 1892 a young Memphis editor lost three friends to a lynch mob, and what Ida B. Wells did next invented much of how investigative journalism is done. Facing a...
The Lunch Counter in Greensboro
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro and asked to be served. It looks like spontaneous courage. It was planned, down...
The Lunch Counter in Greensboro
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro and asked to be served. It looks like spontaneous courage. It was planned, down...
The Tennessee Vote That Finished the Nineteenth...
On August 18, 1920, a 24-year-old Tennessee legislator wearing a red rose, the color of a vote against, walked in with a letter from his mother in his pocket. Harry...
The Tennessee Vote That Finished the Nineteenth...
On August 18, 1920, a 24-year-old Tennessee legislator wearing a red rose, the color of a vote against, walked in with a letter from his mother in his pocket. Harry...