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The Forgotten History of Segregated Swimming Pools and Amusement Parks

Beyond public accommodations and schools, resistance to integration included keeping pools and amusement parks segregated.

by Victoria W. Wolcott via The Conversation on July 9, 2019

Children looking at an architectural model of a city.

Imagining a Past Future: Photographs from the Oakland Redevelopment Agency

City planner John B. Williams — and the photographic archive he commissioned — give us the opportunity to complicate received stories of failed urban renewal.

by Moriah Ulinskas via Places Journal on January 22, 2019

Will America's Schools Ever Be Desegregated?

Though there are practical obstacles to school integration, it's not an unreachable ideal.

by Will Stancil, Rachel Cohen via Pacific Standard on December 5, 2017

Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, and Mayor Hartsfield at the Cyclorama

Cyclorama: An Atlanta Monument

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

by Daniel Judt via Southern Cultures on June 22, 2017

Floyd B. McKissick and Kimp Talley stand in front of a tall sign that reads "Soul City."

Soul City

In the 1960s, civil rights activist Floyd McKissick successfully sold President Nixon on an idea of a black built, black-owned community in North Carolina.

via BackStory on November 17, 2016

Map of Omaha.

A History of Redlining in Omaha

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.

by Adam F. C. Fletcher via North Omaha History on August 2, 2015

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