Dorothy Counts: The Teenager Who Challenged the Segregation, 1957
Dorothy Counts made national news in September 1957, when at the age of 15, she …
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The Black Sharecroppers of the American South Through Old Photographs, 1939-1941
After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. Th…
These Photographs Show the KKK Washington Parade of 1926
The early 1920s were the gilded age for the Ku Klux Klan, as many successful and…
Rare Pictures of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919
In 1919 Chicago was in the throes of an exhausting heatwave. Thousands flocked t…
Ruby Bridges, the First African-American to Attend a White Elementary School in the Deep South, 1960
On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-ye…