Meet the people who helped desegregate Florida's pools and beaches in the 1950s at our free screening and discussion of "Take Me to the Water" on Thursday, Feb. 26.

Cyrus Greene Park in East Tampa is one of local baseball’s hallowed grounds,” Rodney Kite-Powell, a historian with the Tampa Bay History Center, said. Before Major League Baseball integrated in 1947, ...

Norman C. Francis was one of the most influential New Orleanians of the past century. These five moments and memories help show his impact.

A schoolgirl’s refusal in Montgomery became the legal backbone that dismantled Jim Crow on public transportation. On March 2, 1955, […] The post Claudette Colvin was arrested at 15 for defying bus ...

Behind Detroit's ongoing economic resurgence is a history shaped by Black migration, segregation and resistance.