Law and legal history

Black Women Activists North of the Mason Dixon Line

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

The Black Panther Party was founded on October 15, 1966, with Earl Anthony joining the following April. His 1990 book,