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‘Birthright Citizens’: A New Book on the History of Race and Rights

*This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor

On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William