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Mar 21, 2018 · During the height of the civil rights movement, this was a powerful statement indeed, providing a clear allegory to the tumultuous time. ... black panther; comic books; marvel comics;
Sep 13, 2021 · To understand how the First Amendment powers social justice movements like Black Lives Matter — and protects the right to protest, speak out, film police doing their jobs and more — FAC spoke to Constitutional law scholar Margaret M. Russell, who teaches at Santa Clara University School of Law. This interview is part of a series of ...
Rosa Parks arrested On December 1, 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white passenger. The arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and was a defining moment in Parks' long career as an activist.
Mar 17, 2021 · A number of recently published books have explored the pursuit of liberty and equality during the antebellum era. William G. Thomas III’s “A Question of Freedom” recalls the enslaved people ...
The work of Thomas Nast was foundational to the creation of modern political cartoons and he used his public platform to advocate for Black voting rights and against corruption in politics. However, his progressive views on civil rights and good government were marred by an extraordinary hostility to Irish immigrants combined with an equal or ...
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people. Following the Civil War, Congress submitted to the states three amendments as part of its Reconstruction program to guarantee equal civil and legal rights to Black citizens.
Censorship of the Comic Book Industry. Controversy regarding comic books and their content surfaced shortly after their debut in the 1930s. The first group to object to comics was educators, who saw comics as a “bad influence on students’ reading abilities and literary tastes” (Nyberg n.d., para. 3).
