Justice
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Events and legislation targeted toward legal equity, righting wrongs, balancing societal practices with individual rights, and/or ensuring equitable outcomes.
Upcoming Events
September 22 … The Emancipation Proclamation — officially Proclamation 95 — was a pivotal wartime decree that reshaped the moral…
September 24 … The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students whose courage in integrating a previously all-white high…
September 29 … Cooper v. Aaron was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that reaffirmed…
October … The Nashville Student Movement was a pivotal force in the Civil Rights Movement, emerging in Nashville, TN at…
October 16 … John Brown was a lifelong abolitionist who hoped to start uprisings against slavery in the southern United…
November 7 … Keys v. Carolina Coach Company was a pivotal Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) case that played a crucial…
November 13 … Browder v. Gayle was a landmark Supreme Court case that played a pivotal role in the civil…
November 14 … In the early morning hours of November 14, 1960, three young African American girls — the McDonogh…
December 1 … On December 1, 1955, a Black seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, AL and…
December … The Cambridge Movement was a pivotal local struggle that expanded the civil rights agenda to include economic justice,…
December 5 … Boynton v. Virginia was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1960 that played a crucial role…
December 18 … The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Amendment XIII) permanently abolished slavery in the United States and…