All of the housing built for government job-creation programs of the New Deal was segregated. For many...
Segregation
Two Getty curators chat about some of their favorite Paul R. Williams buildings and the architect’s extraordinary...
Less-remembered than the screaming white students are those who said nothing and tacitly approved of their reaction....
Most Americans do not realize that even in the supposedly liberal North, black students were excluded from...
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as...
Wallace appeared on the national scene in the early sixties to give an unadulterated voice to feelings...
The Battle of Liberty Place was an insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction...
Insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South before...
It would take several decades of legal action and years of nonviolent direct action to spark real...
It was not until 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education and later 1964 with the Civil...
White citizens in the South organized a “Massive Resistance” campaign against integration. A Segregated Society An 1896...
De facto segregation continues today because of both contemporary behavior and the historical legacy of de jure...
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest
Obscured in the Angeles’ history is the role that all-African-American CCC camps played in the development of...
In the South, segregation reproduced the racial inequality found under slavery. By Angelina Grigoryeva and Martin Ruef...
The similarities between the effigies of James Meredith and the thousands of black bodies hanged and burned...
Photographs documenting pivotal events in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. Overview This exhibition...