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15 women involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott; Rosa Parks's mugshot is the center.

The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.
by Karen Grigsby Bates via NPR on March 22, 2023
Supreme Court and college admissions illustration.

The Anti-Antiracist Court

How the Supreme Court has weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment and Brown v. Board of Education against antiracism.
by Jonathan Feingold via The Forum on October 24, 2022
A high school yearbook photo of Elizabeth Prewitt.

I Never Saw the System

As a white teenager in Charlotte, Elizabeth Prewitt saw mandatory school busing as a personal annoyance. Going to an integrated high school changed that.
by Elizabeth Prewitt via Admissions Projects on October 1, 2022
Illustration of a Christian church cracking into two pieces.

A Religious Movement Divided Against Itself (Probably) Cannot Stand

Liberal Protestants built a global elite in the 20th century. Its fracturing holds a caution for evangelicals today.
by Daniel G. Hummel via Christianity Today on September 6, 2022
Photo from the 1940s depicting a golfer lining up a shot while three others look on.

Fairness on the Fairway: Public Golf Courses and Civil Rights

Organized movements to bring racial equality to the golf course have been part of the sport since the early 1900s.
by Ashawnta Jackson, George B. Kirsch, Thomas B. Jones, L. J. Williams via JSTOR Daily on July 11, 2022
Sarah L. Murphy teaches children in a two-room schoolhouse in Rockmart, Ga. on June 23, 1950.

The Ugly Backlash to Brown v. Board of Ed That No One Talks About

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling was hailed as a victory for desegregation. But protracted white resistance decimated the pipeline of Black principals and teachers.
by Leslie T. Fenwick via Politico Magazine on May 17, 2022
Photograph of building at Virginia Union University
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A Formerly Enslaved Woman Helped Found a Key American University

Mary Lumpkin’s life helps us to better understand the post-Civil War push for education.
by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 10, 2022
2022 oil painting of Jo Collier

They Called Her ‘Black Jet’

Joetha Collier, a young Black woman, was killed by a white man in 1971, near the Mississippi town where Emmett Till was murdered. Why isn’t her case well-known today?
by Keisha N. Blain via The Atlantic on April 28, 2022
Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image from the children's book "Call Me Max" by transgender author Kyle Lukoff before signing the Parental Rights in Education bill in Shady Hills, Fla. on March 28.

How Anita Bryant Helped Spawn Florida's LGBTQ Culture War

Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, is part of a long legacy of anti-gay rhetoric and legislation in the state.
by Jillian Eugenios via NBC News on April 13, 2022
Cecil B. Moore, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP, speaks to people gathered at the Reyburn Plaza construction site for the Municipal Services building.

Northern Civil Rights and Republican Affirmative Action

One focus of the 1960s struggle for civil rights in the North were the construction industries of Philadelphia, New York and Cleveland.
by Thomas J. Sugrue, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on March 28, 2022
Black and white image of two women, one Black and one white, greeting each other with children in the background.

As One of the First White Kids in a Black School, I Learned Not to Fear History

Today, some Virginians would ‘protect’ children from the kind of valuable education that I had when my dad was governor.
by Woody Holton via Washington Post on November 12, 2021
Abandoned school bus with broken windows.

White Flight In Noxubee County: Why School Integration Never Happened

After the U.S Supreme Court forced school integration in early 1970, white families fled to either racist Central Academy or new Mennonite schools.
by Donna Ladd via Mississippi Free Press on October 29, 2021
Isaac Woodard, an African American army veteran, with his mother after being blinded by a South Carolina police chief in 1946.

After Victory in World War II, Black Veterans Continued the Fight for Freedom at Home

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian on August 30, 2021
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What is Critical Race Theory and Why Did Oklahoma Just Ban It?

The theory, drawing the ire of the right, can help us understand our past.
by Kathryn Schumaker via Made By History on May 19, 2021
Black students from West Charlotte High School leave the school bus
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How White Americans’ Refusal to Accept Busing Has Kept Schools Segregated

The Supreme Court has refused to force White Americans to confront history.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Made By History on April 20, 2021
George Schultz walking with Ronald Reagan outdoors
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George Shultz: The Last Progressive

A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.
by Ron Schatz via HNN on February 28, 2021
Protestors holding signs on a bridge

Fighting School Segregation Didn't Take Place Just in the South

In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as 'just as Jim Crow' as the one she had attended in the South.
by Ashley D. Farmer via The Conversation on February 10, 2021
A car window with a sign in it that reads "let freedom ring" with an illustration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to Liberal Allies — and Why It Resonates Today

King understood the perils of submerged racism.
by Jeanne Theoharis via Made By History on February 8, 2021

A Military 1st: A Supercarrier is Named After an African-American Sailor

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.
by Jay Price via NPR on September 29, 2020
Protestors standing on a bridge, holding signs.

Why 45% of NYC Public School Students Stayed Home in Protest

Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story.
by Olivia B. Waxman, Arpita Aneja via TIME on September 22, 2020
A sign of the Eastside Speedway

Democracy of Speed

Eighteen years of photographs at a Virginia dragstrip show a multiracial community united by their love of fast cars.
by John Edwin Mason via The Bitter Southerner on June 9, 2020
NOLA Resistance Oral History Project title card featuring images of the civil rights movement.

NOLA Resistance Oral History Project

This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.
via The Historic New Orleans Collection on June 1, 2020
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School Interrupted

The movement for school desegregation took some of its first steps with a student strike in rural Virginia. Ed Ayers learns about those who made it happen.
via Future Of America's Past on March 23, 2020

Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South

Black midwives were central to community health networks in the South.
by Cara Delay via Nursing Clio on February 6, 2020

An Attempt to Resegregate Little Rock, of All Places

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on October 22, 2019
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A New Housing Program to Fight Poverty has an Unexpected History

Some cities are trying to help poor children succeed by having their families move to middle-income, "opportunity areas" -- an idea once politically impossible.
via Retro Report on October 22, 2019

The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.
by Asher Price via The Atlantic on September 19, 2019
View over Baltimore.
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How Politicians Use Fear of Cities Like Baltimore to Stoke White Resentment

President Trump is building on a tactic pioneered by segregationists.
by Kyla Sommers via Made By History on July 29, 2019

The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.
by Jon Hale via The Conversation on July 24, 2019

Biden’s Defense Of Anti-Busing Past Distorts History Of Segregation In Delaware

Like other northern liberals in the 1970s, Biden worked to restrict federal civil rights enforcement to the Jim Crow South.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Talking Points Memo on July 18, 2019
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