civil rights

While in hindsight it is very regrettable and morally reprehensible, was the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson legally correct for 1896? My understanding is that the argument against segregation at the time was it violated 14th Amendments. The relevant part of the 14th Amendment states "No State...

On this day in Civil War history Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag November 19, 1805 - Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west. 1810 August Willich, Prussian-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Braunsberg, Province...

Emory University has an interesting video on YouTube about this little known riot. @PatYoung might be interested as well as @jgoodguy . In this riot black people were by no means passive victims but fought back and a future US Supreme Court Justice was almost lynched. Kirk's Raider's

In the mid 1960s there was a group of black clergy men in the South that formed something akin to an ad hoc home guard to protect black people from white racist paramilitaries. Maybe @PatYoung knows something about this. There is a comprehensive Wiki Article on this influential but now...