Civil Rights Law

Demonstrators and Their Lawyers Protect Our Right to Peaceful Protest

Locke Bowman | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Roderick Macarthur Justice Center, Chicago Iraq War Protests, Freedom of Assembly, National Lawyers Guild, First Amendment, Chicago Police Department, Civil Rights Law, U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, Chicago News
Locke Bowman

The right to march in the streets is more precious than gold. Whenever those in authority act to undermine "peaceable assembly," everyone's freedom is put at risk.

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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, William Kunstler, Aclu, Civil Rights Law, American Civil Liberties Union, Civil Rights, Naacp, Sundance Film Festival, Bill Kunstler, Fbi, Entertainment News
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

At home, Dad spoke of the racism he saw every day in the courtroom. Civil rights leaders, he told us, where only honored when they were safely dead.

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Here's To Obama and All of Us: We've Come A Long, Long Way!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Voting Rights Law, Michael Schwerner, Earl Warren, George W. Bush, Andrew Goodman, Birmingham, March on Washington, Civil Rights Law, Frank Rich, James Chaney, Barack Obama, Impeachment, Kelly Ingram Park, Mississippi Sheriffs, Martin Luther King, Dore Schary, Segregation, Ku Klux Klan, Ralph Abernathy, Selma, United States Supreme Court, Desegregation, Good Friday 1963, ABC News, Bull Connor, Meridian, Inauguration, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

I still remember the clicking of the marchers' heels as they moved into the Birmingham's business district, and, just then, the roar of a police motorcycle as it cut in front of King and Abernathy, halting the protest.

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