Category: Civil Rights
Fear, Loathing, and Raw Courage at Little Rock
On this day in 1957, under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock,…
Starvation of the Great Soul
On this day in 1932, in his cell at Yerovda Jail near Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British…
Love Faces Hate
On this day in 1963, a bomb fashioned from 15 sticks of dynamite and set by Klansmen explodes during Sunday morning services in the 16th…
Why Law Enforcement Shouldn’t Be Exempt From Being Monitored
As readers of this blog know all too well, I am a salesperson by trade. Indeed, if I had a dollar for every time I’ve…
Chief Crazy Horse – Protector of His People
On September 5th in 1877, Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a cavalry soldier in the guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The…
Thurgood Marshall – Celebrating the Constitution as a Living Document
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…
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