Sixty years ago, they tried to break the marchers in Selma with clubs and tear gas. Today, they do it with voter ID laws and gerrymandering. The ...

General John Gordon."Slavery is only one of the minor issues and the cause of the war, the whole cause, on our part is the maintenance of the ...

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, in 1862."When the dogmas of a sectional party...threatened to destroy the sovereign rights of the ...

John S. Mosby.Slave Owners Rebellion?It is said that the most robust support for secession came from the areas that had the most slaveowners. Based on ...

General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick.Early YearsKilpatrick graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1861, shortly after the war began, and was ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this quilting tradition

No, the new nonfiction film Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP is not about the lead character in AMC’s crime drama, Breaking Bad. But the ...

Staff AttorneyCAIR-Chicago is seeking a Staff Attorney to join our Civil Rights Department and help fight against discrimination and hate crimes.To apply ...

A picture of Marlboro Jones. He was an African-American servant to a white Confederate soldier."These African Americans were real fighting men whose ...

Robert E. Lee in color.Confederate Soldiers’ UniformsAt the onset of the conflict, soldiers of the Confederacy donned garments sourced from their homes ...