The Struggle for Civil Rights

While focused on the year 1963, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has created this timeline of the fight for civil rights that extends from 1939 to 1965.  For 1963, the library has reproduced documents including including memos, telegrams, photographs, letters...

‘America’s Mandela’ Bryan Stevenson

Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, on October 14, urged Rider University students to create more justice in the world. As quoted by Cristina Rojas in the Times of Trenton, “Our history is that for decades in this country, we burdened and we battered and we...

Unity Days, Rider University, October, 2015

Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, is the keynote speaker for Rider University’s Unity Days on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 6:45 in the Cavalla Room, Bart Luedeke Center.  There is also be an exhibit of Flip...