Search the Roll Call archive by keyword, date, Congress, section, or tags.
one day instead of the tireless NAACP activist whose refusal to move to the back of the bus was an inevitable and deliberate part of a movement, the continuing fight against the social order of segregation
Elias recounts the story of Mississippi civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer’s challenge to a segregationist incumbent in the 1964 Democratic primary and in the general election, when she ran on
Kennedy, who wrote a series of opinions such as the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015 that helped usher in a new era of civil rights.
church and state in the Capitol.