By Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote In 1962 in Forrest County, Mississippi, only 12 of the 7,500 adult black citizens were permitted to register to vote. That year, I made my first trip to the Deep South as one of the trial lawyers of Robert Kennedy’s … [Read more...] about “Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote” by Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (January-February 2012 P&R Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)
By Lonnie G Bunch, III (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Beginnings When construction starts on the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Fall of 2012, it will signal a beginning for some. For those of us who have been involved with the Museum’s development, however, the groundbreaking will be more like rounding the … [Read more...] about “Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)
“Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement” by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (May-June 2011 P&R Issue)
By Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Many of those who profess to want change “don’t care nothing about poor people…If they had poor people at heart, they could make it better.” Ethel Mae Mathews, president of the Atlanta chapter of the National Welfare Rights Organization, made this statement in 2000, after decades of community-based … [Read more...] about “Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement” by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (May-June 2011 P&R Issue)
“Title VI: In the Beginning” by Bill Taylor (September-October 2010 P&R issue)
By Bill Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) We are pleased to print this excerpt of our late colleague Bill Taylor’s engaging 2004 memoir, The Passion of My Times: An Advocate’s Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement, which gives a fascinating inside-the-Beltway side of an important American story that started in the streets and churches of the … [Read more...] about “Title VI: In the Beginning” by Bill Taylor (September-October 2010 P&R issue)
“Separate Does Not Equal Equal: Mexican Americans Before Brown v. Board” by Philippa Strum (September-October 2010 P&R Issue)
By Philippa Strum (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) It was September 1943, more than a decade before Brown v. Board of Education was decided by the Supreme Court, when Soledad Vidaurri walked up to a schoolhouse door with five little children in her wake. American soldiers were still fighting overseas—almost two more years of battles lay ahead before World … [Read more...] about “Separate Does Not Equal Equal: Mexican Americans Before Brown v. Board” by Philippa Strum (September-October 2010 P&R Issue)
