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Source: 395 U.S. 444, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/395/444. PER CURIAM. The appellant,[1] a leader of a Ku Klux…
Source: 357 U.S. 449, https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/357/449. Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court. We…
Source: The Arena 23 (January 1900): 15–24. Our country's national crime is lynching. It is…
"The influence of woman is not limited to the domestic circle. Society is her empire."…
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Source: 323 U.S. 214; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/323/214 Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by…
Source: 347 U.S. 483; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court,…
Source: 377 U.S. 533; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/377/533 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined…
Source: 163 U.S. 537; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537 Justice BROWN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by…
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This volume presents 25 core decisions of the Supreme Court. Arranged in chronological order, they…
Captain John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, had received Paul Revere’s warning. Great Britain’s…
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A. Lydia Maria Child, Governor Henry Wise of Virginia, and John Brown, Correspondence, October 1859…
A. American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments, December 6, 1833 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+1/ch12/ch12+American+AntiSlavery+Society+1833.mp3 The Convention assembled in…
This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history…
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