October 20, 2021

Soumyajit Mazumder

Then-President Barack Obama hugs U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia, one of the original marchers at Selma, during an event marking the 50th anniversary of the marches from Selma to Montgomery at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7th, 2015.
Social Justice

Civil Rights Protests in the 1960s Changed Attitudes and Voting Patterns

New research presents evidence of the long-term impact of direct action.