civil rights
2018 Free Expression Awards Recipients Announced
1968 Olympics protesters, reporters who uncovered workplace harassment to receive Newseum’s Free Expression Awards.
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‘Freedom’ is best response to white supremacy hatemongers
Attempts to censor neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups is a betrayal of our nation’s core principles — not to mention ineffective and counterproductive.
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“Welcoming the Stranger” in the Age of Trump
Religious individuals and communities offer sanctuary to undocumented people, defending their actions as acts of religious conscience protected by the First Amendment.
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‘I am America’
“I am America,” Muhammad Ali famously declared. “I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me – black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.”
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Remembering 1960 civil rights victory in ‘Bates v. Little Rock’
Fifty-five years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that protected the free-association rights of the NAACP and a heroine of the civil rights movement, Daisy Bates.
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Jewish Voices from the Selma-to-Montgomery March
The participation of so many Jews in the civil rights movement was formative for an entire generation of American Jews.
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Recognizing a Civil Rights Landmark
Fifty years ago today — Jan. 14, 1963 — the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a Virginia law that was being used to quash the work of the National Association for
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Commemorating landmark free-association victory
Fifty years ago today on June 30, 1958, the Supreme Court issued a ruling vitally important to the civil rights movement and First Amendment jurisprudence. That day, the high court
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African-American First Amendment heroes
African-Americans have contributed mightily to the cause of the First Amendment for many years. Many fundamental First Amendment freedoms were forged during the era of the civil rights movement in
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NAACP’s Julian Bond speaks on First Amendment and his Supreme Court triumph
One in a series of interviews with principals involved in First Amendment-related U.S. Supreme Court cases (see “SCT interview” keyword below). The First Amendment still represents the key to positive
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