"By a brilliant young constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago--who clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for Judge Merrick B. Garland and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer, and who also happens to be an elegant stylist--a powerfully alarming book aiming to vindicate the constitutional rights of public school students, so often trampled upon by the Supreme...

"Voting gives people a voice in their communities. In the past, racist laws and practices kept Black American voices silent. No place was more affected by this racism than the state of Mississippi. In 1964, organizers and volunteers brought change to Mississippi. This movement to register Black voters became known as Freedom Summer, and it led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Discover the people, events, and results of Freedom Summer...

"The former president of Harvard University and the historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes about coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America"-- Provided by publisher.

A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.