Civil rights demonstrations Archives

Civil rights demonstrations

Teachable Moment

From a conversation that took place in March in a high school classroom in Bryansk, Russia. Earlier that day, Maxim, a student, was arrested for spreading information about an unsanctioned…

Lifting as We Climb

by Randall Kennedy,

A progressive defense of respectability politics

Friends Like These

From emails about an antigay protest organized by the Westboro Baptist Church in 2002. The emails were included in the FBI’s file on Fred Phelps, who founded the church in…

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

by Randall Kennedy,

And how it changed the South

Civil Rights Act

by Amy M. Tyson,

From an interview with Azie Mira Dungey, creator of the Web comedy series Ask a Slave, by Amy M. Tyson, a historian at DePaul University, published in February in The…