by lindaoppenheim | Sep 5, 2018 | Events
On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at 4:30 pm in the Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Desmond Jagmohan will present the Constitution Day Lecture, “Constituting Justice: Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign.” Desmond Jagmohan is an assistant...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 16, 2018 | Article
Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis, Martha Park gives examples of lynchings of African Americans in that city at the end of the nineteenth century, illustrating how “[b]eing too rich or too poor could have fatal consequences for...
