• New Orleans Creole chef Leah Chase owns a restaurant named Dooky Chase which has served as a gallery for an extensive African American art collection since the 1950s, was a gathering place for Civil Rights leaders?

Facts on topics related to Civil Rights

Civil rights

• Indo-Guyanese lawyer and civil rights activist Rudy Narayan could, Michael Mansfield has written, have been the great black barrister of his generation?
• Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas?
• Camille Gravel, a Louisiana Democrat and civil rights advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office?
• Murphy Bell, a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge, represented the since imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972?
• Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney, worked against racial discrimination and helped end the doctrine of separate but equal during a period of massive resistance to integration in Virginia's public schools?
• by 1870, "New Departure" Democrats stopped opposing Reconstruction and civil rights for African Americans to improve their electoral fortunes?
• in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?
• in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
• the civil rights attorney Jesse N. Stone, Jr., was in the first graduating class in 1950 of the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge?
• the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House (pictured) in Columbia, South Carolina, honors the life and work of the civil rights activist Modjeska Monteith Simkins?

Right

• under the New Hampshire state constitution citizens of that state have the right to revolution?

Civil liberties

• Publishers Weekly criticized Cyber Rights by civil liberties lawyer Mike Godwin (pictured) for the book's "unusually broad view of free speech"?
• the 1994 Intelligence Services Act revamped the Apartheid-era security agencies of South Africa and ensured the future preservation of civil liberties?