Category: Civil Rights
The Noble Crazy Horse, Protector of the People
On this day in 1877, Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a cavalry soldier in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. A…
Thurgood Marshall and the end of Separate but Equal
On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on the…
Elections – Lincoln v McClellan and the Civil War
On this day in 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee deals a stinging defeat to Union General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull…
The March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.
On this day in 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the African American civil rights movement reaches its high-water mark when Martin Luther…
Missouri Becomes the 24th State and a Slave State
On this day in 1821, Missouri enters the Union as the 24th state, and the first located entirely west of the Mississippi River. Statehood came…
America’s Dirty Little Secret
Kathleen Vohs of the Washington Post writes about the “cognitive dissonance” that plagues Trump supporters. Kelly Weill of the Daily Beast wonders whether his “hard-core fans can be deradicalized.”…
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