segregation

A new book seeks to explain why many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement for white people.

How freedmen navigated an unofficially segregated Methodist Episcopal Church.

The 1954 Supreme Court decision, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, declared that “separate but equal” has no place in education.

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.

On the complex history of “passing” in America.

Two elephants living at a Miami Beach resort blurred the boundaries between work and leisure in 1920s Florida.

The symbolic battles of World War I.

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.

Reflecting on the trailblazing chemist’s fight for dignity and the myths we tell about our scientific heroes.

The Globetrotters have always been far more than just a comic exhibition team, just as sports have always meant much more than escapism.

During World War II, almost a half million POWs were interned in the United States, where they forged sympathetic relationships with Black American soldiers.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

A Steel City bibliography of Pittsburgh.

The history of segregation in the Navy — and its abolition — show how to combat institutionalized bigotry.

For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America.

Wartime production led to environmental and social injustices, polluting land and bodies in ways that continue to shape public policy and race relations.

Decades after the segregation battles of his youth, Jerry Jones has modernized the NFL’s revenue model but hasn’t hired a Black head coach.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

Two new books and one expanded edition of Gordon Parks' photographs look at the work of the photographer from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."