During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there was no doubt which was the most violent, repressive Southern state. Mississippi was the keystone of white supremacy. Robert Moses, leader of the ...

Moses Wright's testimony in the trial of his great-nephew's accused killers would go down in history as one of the bravest moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Moses and his wife Elizabeth lived in a ...

Urban planner Robert Moses (1888-1981) was the unelected official who single-handedly reshaped New York City and its environs with his massive public works projects – highways, bridges, tunnels and ...

Your critic shows the limitations of extreme specialisation in his review of Motherless Brooklyn (review, December 7). Apart from the sexual maguffin drawn from the novel by Jonathan Lethem on which ...