Law and legal history

Pauli Murray, the Brown Decision, and the Struggle for Equal Rights

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Over the past fifty

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us In a statement both