"I have to die a man or live a coward." With these words, a mild-mannered black Detroit physician set in motion forces that would result in a dramatic milestone in America's civil rights movement, extending the notion that a man's home
August 6, 1998 is a notable anniversary in the annals of the American civil rights movement-and a virtually unknown one. On August 6, 1948, after a 55-day trial in Mercer County Court in Trenton, N.J., that was virtually scripted by the prosecution, six b
In 1955, Montgomery, AL had a municipal law which required black citizens to ride in the back of the city's buses. On December 1st of that year, Mrs. Rosa Parks, a forty-two year old seamstress, boarded a city bus and sat in the first row of seats in
An act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to
On November 14, 1960, the nation watched as six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary School and into history. A federal court ordered the New Orleans school system to desegregate, making Bridges the first African-American to at
This decision concerns a North Carolina law prohibiting African-Americans from carrying firearms and to what degree interracial marriage renders them non-African Americans and thereby not subject to the prohibition.
