Suppose that in 1955 Rosa Parks had simply got up from her seat and made her way to the back of the bus. Suppose she had said, “I’m just a seamstress, what impact on Jim Crow laws can I have and will ...
In my last commentary, I mentioned the story of the 1924 mayoral election in Detroit. The Ku Klux Klan’s write-in candidate narrowly lost. The winning candidate succeeded because Catholic immigrants ...