by Molly Wicker | Mar 15, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: MOLLY WICKER On this day – March 15, 1933 – Joan Ruth Bader, later known as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was born in Brooklyn, New York, during the height of the Great Depression. Known for her barrier-breaking support of gender equality and worker’s rights, Ginsburg’s...
by Molly Wicker | Feb 1, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: MOLLY WICKER On February 1, 1960, four black college students sat down at a “whites-only” lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C. and refused to leave after being denied service. Additional students joined them over the following weeks and months, and...
by Taylor King | Jan 21, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: TAYLOR KING On Friday, January 21, 1831, the newspaper columns of Ohio’s Portsmouth Courier prominently displayed a paragraph wrought with hatred and bigotry. Putting words to the community’s desire for separation as black and white as the ink on the pages, the...
by Molly Wicker | Nov 30, 2018 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: MOLLY WICKER On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to comply with the bus segregation law in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested. Her bold act of resistance inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful movements against racial...
by Molly Wicker | Nov 7, 2018 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: MOLLY WICKER On November 7, 1837, Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob while defending the site of his anti-slavery newspaper The St. Louis Observer. His death both deeply affected many individuals who opposed slavery and greatly strengthened the...