Tag: Civil Rights

Bancroft Library to expand documentation of Japanese Americans’ World War II experiences

Bancroft to expand record of Japanese Americans' WWII experiences

June 29, 2011:

The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received two grants from the U.S. National Park Service to expand its efforts documenting the World War II era experiences of Japanese Americans.

Civil-rights champion John Doar, ’49 wins nation’s top civilian honor

May 23, 2012:

The legendary civil-rights prosecutor John Doar, Boalt ’49 is recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest honor given to a civilian. As U.S. Assistant Attorney General from 1960 to 1967, he led the federal effort to protect civil rights in the South.

Jim Crow signs as symbols of subjugation, trophies of triumph

February 15, 2011:

In the mid 1960s, landmark laws brought an official end to the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow. Professor Elizabeth Abel explores the “visual politics” of a system that shaped experience and perception throughout the American South (and beyond) for nearly a century — in a book praised by literary critic Henry Louis Gates as giving “new focus to our national dialogue on race.”