In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard to search and seize an annex of the nearby Algiers Motel....
In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. Two days later, a report of gunshots prompts the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard to search and seize an annex of the nearby Algiers Motel....
michigan black man wrongfully detained during walk more by corey williams, associated press a black man has filed a $10 million civil rights lawsuit against a suburban detroit police department and one of its officers, alleging the officer, who is white, wrongfully detained him as he took an...
2007: John Payton, the attorney who represented the University of Michigan in the two affirmative action cases that reached the Supreme Court, was named director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. 2008: Evelynn Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History ...
investigation. The vehicle reportedly had a license plate that was not registered to it, and a fight ensued. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the Lyoya family, and his firm has led the charge for demanding that police release “all video evidence” p...
Founded in 2013 by artist and curator Tariqa Waters, Martyr Sauce is “committed to keeping the weirdos in the city”. The intersection of art and community, Martyr Sauce is an underground staple of the the city of Seattle. Find out morehere ...
“They feel — viscerally feel — like this is taking us back to the 1950s and 1960s,” said Rhodes, who is the son of a civil rights attorney. People pushing the legislation failed to consult with most Jackson lawmakers or Jackson residents, the pastor said. “It feels like this...
This paper builds upon and extends Christian and legal scholarship on the civil rights movement by illuminating a climate of religious freedom that served as a catalyst for and was integral to the success of the spirited activism of the civil rights movement. To date, scholars have not extensivel...
Outrage over Hampton’s death, especially in Chicago’s Black community, is oftencreditedfor the removal of Cook county state’s attorney Edward Hanrahan, whose office had managed the police officers involved in the raid. Before the raid, Hanrahan had been considered a likely candidate for Chicago...
Kennedy sent federal marshals to escort the riders to Jackson, Mississippi, but images of the bloodshed made the worldwide news, and the freedom rides continued. In September, under pressure from CORE and other civil rights organizations, as well as from the attorney general’s office, the Inte...