UNTIL JUSTICE BE DONEAmerica’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to ReconstructionBy Kate Masur480 pp. Masur’s careful study begins with free states and localities passing laws that restricted Black mobility, property rights and access to the justice system. Black Americans protested, leading an early push for civil rights. Some may object to such a broad definition of what constitutes a civil rights movement. A milestone came with the case of Gilbert Horton, a free Black man jailed as a fugitive slave in the District of Columbia.

Source: New York Times April 16, 2021 09:00 UTC