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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

January 8, 2018January 13, 2018 Jon Hale #StudentActivismForum, civil rights, criminal justice system, law, racism, segregation, South, student activism

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. High school student activism in Mississippi during the 1960s highlights the overlooked

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African Americans’ Civil Cases in the Jim Crow South

November 17, 2017November 20, 2017 Melissa Milewski economic justice, Jim Crow, law, race, South

In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made

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Black Mobility, Law, and Freedom

October 27, 2017October 30, 2017 Jessica Parr Activism, freedom, law, slavery, travel

In 1849, an unnamed Missouri slave owner took a male slave to California to search for gold. Two years later,

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The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Alyssa Collins black feminism, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, intersectionality, law, religion, sexuality

In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg

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"Flogging a slave fastened to the ground." 1853. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the Atlantic World

September 16, 2017September 19, 2017 Andrew T. Fede law, Racial Violence, slave trade, slavery, violence

This is an excerpt from the preface of Andrew T. Fede’s Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the

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