segregation

This 1994 documentary brings the passions and agonies of Mississippi’s voter-registration drive into the present tense.

Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery.

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients.

Fulbright created an exchange program which sends Americans abroad and advances international engagement and mutual understanding. Yet it’s not his only legacy.

Confronting segregation as Black urbanites' fight for access and equality in northern cinemas.

The radical art of the Depression years.

“I’d assumed this practice was a manifestation of military decorum.”

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust’s extraordinary memoir recalls painful memories for her--and me.

A new biography examines the life of the abolitionist, newspaper editor, activist, and globetrotter.

More than 3,800 formerly enslaved people are buried in the military cemetery.

A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.

The ambivalence many Black soldiers felt toward the U.S. in WWII was matched only by the ambivalence the U.S. showed toward principles on which WWII was fought.

Louis Armstrong’s complicated relationship with New Orleans.

Municipal governments today hold around $4 trillion in outstanding debt. The growing costs of simply servicing their debt is cannibalizing their annual budgets.

To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.

Starbucks and Anheuser-Busch are the latest corporate targets of tactics honed by segregationists post–Brown v. Board.

During the Jim Crow era, working-class Washingtonians' recreation options were far more limited—and dangerous.

The Supreme Court Justice's defense of Plessy v. Ferguson in a 1993 memo continues to influence the court's interpretation of the 14th amendment.

The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul.