Charles Sumner 
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/28/2021
Joanne Freeman: Violent Rhetoric in Congress is Meant to Intimidate Enemies Into Silence
"I suppose that’s what we’re going to see now; the person who does that kind of bullying and that kind of threatening gets a good degree of support for it."
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7/5/2020
"It Has Not Been My Habit to Yield": Charles Sumner and the Fight for Equal Naturalization Rights
by Lucy Salyer
Senator Charles Sumner lost his battle on the Fourth of July 1870, with dire consequences for both Asian immigrant communities and the prospects of a more racially egalitarian America.
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