racial violence

A racist mob forced Opal Lee and her family from their Fort Worth home. Now she has been given the land and a new house is being built for her.

Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Police K-9 units in the United States emerged during the Civil Rights era. This was not a coincidence.

First-person accounts of those scarred in many ways by the era’s violence suggest Reconstruction did not fail, it was overthrown by violence.

Three veterans of the civil rights movement fought segregation in St. Augustine, Fla., enduring violence and racism in America’s oldest city.

40 years after Vincent Chin’s murder, the struggle against anti-Asian hate continues.

This northern city was shaped by racial terrorism and persistent advocacy for Black liberation.

During the 2010s, violent attacks by white supremacists and other extremists increased, including at a church in Charleston, S.C. and a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

How white-owned newspapers incited racial terror in America.

The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. It was also part of a larger pattern across the country.

Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa massacre and the resilience of Black Wall Street’s residents.

How the myth of a liberal North erases a long history of white violence.

In the 1930s, Socialist and Communist organizers tried to help Black sharecroppers rise up against their oppressors.

The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.

Why it matters what language we use to describe what happened in 1919.

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.

The violent rise of white supremacy after the Vietnam War.

Olivia Hooker was 6 at the time of the riot, considered to be one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

Thomas Moss’ lynching, like many others in the South, was a punishment for becoming an economic competitor to whites.