by lindaoppenheim | Mar 8, 2015 | Article, Events
President Obama spoke at the 50th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the attack on marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, demanding the right to vote. A couple of days earlier, in Madison, Wisconsin, marchers protested...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 5, 2015 | Article, Documents
The federal Department of Justice issued a report on March 4, 2015 of findings from its investigation of the Ferguson, MO police department and the shooting of Michael Brown. It cleared Darren Wilson, the white officer who shot Michael Brown, of civil rights...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 28, 2015 | Article
Fifth and final article in the series brings the history of African Americans at Princeton up to the present day.
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 16, 2015 | Documents
James Jacobs, Stanford University librarian, saved PDFs of the documents from the Ferguson, Missouri grand jury which heard evidence about the Michael Brown shooting to their digital depository.
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 7, 2015 | Events
At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on Monday, January 5, during a session called “Understanding Ferguson: Race, Power, Protest and the Past,” a panel of historians said “they’ve got an obligation to help students and society at...
