Civil rights

Viv Sanders corrects the male bias in the study of the civil rights movement in the USA.

Segregation on buses in Alabama officially ended on November 13th, 1956.

Sylvia Pankhurst was taken to the women's gaol at Holloway on October 24th, 1906.

The Theosophists Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins and others went to India at the end of the 19th century to search for God and universal brotherhood in the Hindu tradition. They also ended up supporting women’s rights against contemporary Hindu practices. Mark Bevir explores the tensions between their fascination with traditional culture and the reforming zeal of their proto-feminism.

Richard Wilkinson is impressed by a new study of the women’s movement.

Mark Rathbone looks at the role of the Supreme Court in the history of civil rights in the USA from 1865 onwards.

Michael Lynch takes a fresh look at the key reform of 19th-century Russia.

William Rubinstein looks at a turning point in America’s national sport.

Peter Ling analyses Martin Luther King's involvement with non-violent protest in the USA. 

Paula Bartley reappraises the role of the leader of the Suffragettes.

June Purvis explores the career of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Paula Bartley takes issue with those historians who depict the suffragettes of the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union as elitists concerned only with upper- and middle-class women.

Peter Ling argues that, by adulating King for his work in the Civil Rights campaigns, we have misrepresented the complexity of those struggles and ignored some of the equally challenging campaigns of his last years.