Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Half a century ago the civil rights movement’s effort to carry the campaign for school desegregation from the South to the urban North ended in failure.

Revisiting Meredith v. Fair, we get the inside story of how critical race theory was developed in the years after Brown v. Board of Education.

The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.