Related stories Related sites The civil rights struggle in modern times. 1954 -- U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown ...
The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the University of Texas at Austin professor argues the ...
Coretta Scott King died in 2006 at the age of 78 from complications with ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer for women. Coretta Scott King was more than the wife and widow of Martin ...
70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, the state of Mississippi is embracing Till's story as the federal government flinches from showcasing painful moments of America's racial history. It's been ...
He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation. By Bernard Mokam Joseph ...
On February 1, 1960, four Black men walked into the Woolworth’s general store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the world. Ezell A. Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David ...
They called it Shared Chains. The episode ran on the “Blaac718” podcast, and in that dim space between sound and silence, an Asian American man ...
America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...
WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...
Race and class identities in early American department stores -- Before Montgomery : organizing the department store movement -- To all store and office workers, Negro and white! : unionism and ...
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