Eleanor Roosevelt’s Second Act
After the death of her husband in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt left the White House and embarked upon a new career as ‘First Lady of the World’.
Civil Rights
The Man behind the Leader
Bayard Rustin, African American civil rights leader, was also a pacifist, a socialist and a gay rights activist.
Policing Abortion
Recent restrictions on the right to abortion in the United States imitate policies enacted 150 years ago.
Out on Good Behaviour
Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation.
The Man who Haunts America
John Brown, the abolitionist firebrand, remains a potent figure in the United States’ febrile politics of race.
Harold Moody’s Fight for Racial Equality
The pioneer of the British civil rights movement is no less significant than his American counterparts.
A Stand on the Streetcar
How an individual act of resistance in 1850s’ New York led to the desegregation of the city’s transit system.
On the Wrong Side of History
A celebrated novelist and tireless social reformer, Mary Ward has been all but forgotten because of her support for the anti-suffrage movement.
Birth of a Freedom Fighter
Nat Turner, leader of one of the most significant rebellions in the antebellum South, was born on 2 October 1800.
The Hitlers in Our Own Country
How the Nazi persecution of Jews shaped the African-American freedom struggle.