The Voting Rights Act's legacy and ongoing struggles for ballot access

Benjamin Butler's "contraband" designation and self-emancipation of enslaved people during the Civil War

Racial attitudes toward Indigenous peoples and demands for cultural assimilation

Creating jobs within the community due to lack of employer interest

African American agency and leadership in the abolitionist movement

Opposition to expanding women's roles and integration in the military

Lincoln's practical approach to emancipation and ambivalence toward Black freedom

Arab cultural values of tribalism and honor and their impact on Muslim women

Fundamentalist rhetoric, polarization, and the need for nuanced discourse

Parallels between the Korematsu case and the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries

Gordon Parks' use of the camera as a "weapon of choice" against racism

Mother's survival strategy of remaining invisible in Auschwitz

Celebration of the Confederacy alongside competing narratives in the South

Obama administration's handling of the Shirley Sherrod controversy

Founding of women's professional tennis and early battles for equal opportunity

Uncovering and documenting the history of the slave trade in Montgomery

Bryan Stevenson's view of lynching as a systemic tool of racial control

Women filmmakers' inclusion and the intersection of queer cinema with avant-garde film

Historical context leading up to the Civil Rights Movement and Emmett Till's murder

The sanitizing of Muhammad Ali's and Dr. King's radical legacies over time

Lack of resources and equity for women's college sports before Title IX

Gordon Parks's documentation of poverty's long-term impact on Black families

Lincoln's views on equality, Black rights, and political constraints

Diverse historical sources for reconstructing the experiences of enslaved people

Negotiating equal footing at the Today Show inspired by feminism

Early experiences with gender discrimination as a young poet