From Courtroom to Street to Stream: The Shifting Battlefields of Civil Rights

The popular narrative of the American Civil Rights Movement often follows a neat, triumphant arc: it begins with the moral clarity of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, culminates in the heroic marches and speeches of the mid-1960s, and concludes with the signing of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. … Continue reading From Courtroom to Street to Stream: The Shifting Battlefields of Civil Rights