Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school...
On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Ruby was born in...
View ArticleRare pictures of the Chicago Race Riots, 1919
In 1919 Chicago was in the throes of an exhausting heat wave. Thousands flocked to the beaches lining Lake Michigan for some relief. Among them: a group of black boys that included 17-year-old Eugene...
View ArticleWhen the KKK marched on Washington, 1926
The early 1920s were the gilded age for the Ku Klux Klan, as many successful and powerful people were either openly Klansmen or sympathetic to the cause. The organization boasted a membership of 3...
View ArticleThe Black sharecroppers of the American South, 1939-1941
After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The absence of cash or an independent credit system led to the creation of sharecropping which was a system agricultural...
View ArticleDorothy Counts: The teenager who challenged the segregation, 1957
Dorothy Counts made national news in September 1957, when at the age of 15, she became one of the first and, at the time, the only black student to enroll in the newly desegregated Harry Harding High...
View Article
