A 1961 sit-in at the Jackson Public Library by nine Tougaloo College students challenged segregation in Mississippi.
Charlie’s Place was founded in 1937 by Charlie and Sarah Fitzgerald.
Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary activity.
Trying to stake out a sliver of space for the “moderate evangelical,” the magazine sometimes left readers confused and ...
Built for Black students in 1950 and closed during integration, Jordan Elementary is set to reopen as a community center.
Chickasaw Park is special. It was designed by the Olmsted firm in 1923 for Louisville, Kentucky, and is believed to be the only Olmsted-designed park created specifically for a Black community during ...
Chickasaw Park is special. It was designed by the Olmsted firm in 1923 for Louisville, Kentucky, and is believed to be the only Olmsted-designed park created specifically for a Black community during ...
Born in 1950, Readus Fletcher experienced his share of racial discrimination as a young man, but he also saw the dismantling of Jim Crow laws that ...
ATLANTA — Commercial aviation became an essential, if often overlooked, instrument of the U.S. civil rights movement, carrying Martin Luther King Jr. across a divided nation and beyond during the jet ...
The 1950s and '60s were two of the most influential decades. So much history unfolded in such a little time. These moments shaped the way the boomer generation viewed the world around them. Those born ...
With few swimming options available, young Black residents of St. Petersburg near Jordan Park enjoy a flooded area in August 1939. Photo courtesy of USFSP Library Pinellas County’s beaches have long ...
With cool detachment, Northerners often view school segregation as a disease confined to the distant South. Yet many a Northern city is undergoing a vast Negro influx, a consequent white flight to the ...
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