Dorothy Counts: The teenager who challenged the segregation, 1957
This post was originally published on this siteDorothy Counts made national news in September 1957, when at the age of 15, she became one of […]
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The Black sharecroppers of the American South, 1939-1941
This post was originally published on this siteAfter the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an […]
When the KKK marched on Washington, 1926
This post was originally published on this siteThe early 1920s were the gilded age for the Ku Klux Klan, as many successful and powerful people […]
Rare pictures of the Chicago Race Riots, 1919
This post was originally published on this siteIn 1919 Chicago was in the throes of an exhausting heat wave. Thousands flocked to the beaches lining […]