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29Feb
2016

This Week in History – Civil Rights Act of 1875

Featured Photo: Civil Rights Act of 1875 Declared Unconstitutional. In 1883, The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights act of 1875, forbidding discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public spaces, was ...

22Feb
2016

This Week in History – The Battle of Iwo Jima

Featured Photo, Above: Photographer Joe Rosenthal snapping a posed shot minutes after taking the most reproduced photograph in the history of photography. The foot of Mt. Suribachi is in the background.  (Source: USMC ...

15Feb
2016

This Week in History – Women Permitted to Argue Before Supreme Court

Photo: Belva Lockwood. On March 3, 1879, Belva Lockwood was sworn in as the first woman lawyer able to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and in 1880, she actually argued a case, Kaiser v. Stickney, before the ...

08Feb
2016

This Week in History – Beatles Arrive in New York

On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy Airport. (Source: Creative Commons) West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Kelly V. Landers recalls events of ...

01Feb
2016

This Week in History – First US Supreme Court Session

Panorama of United States Supreme Court Building at Dusk (Source: Creative Commons) West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Kelly V. Landers recalls events of significance that occurred this week in history. On February 1, ...