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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
For National Poetry Month, we remember James Weldon Johnson, an educator, lawyer, statesman, poet, and song-writer.
Posted in: African American History, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
On December 30, 1903, a fire broke out in the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois when a broken arc light ignited a muslin curtain. The theatre burned to the ground and over 600 theatre occupants, more than two-thirds women and children, died of asphyxiation, burns, or trampling. It remains one of the deadliest fires in …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library