Segregation
Decades After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Urban 'Renewal' Sparked Black Wall Street's Second Destruction
In the 1960s, construction of four federal highways brought the rebuilt neighborhood of Greenwood's prosperity to an abrupt end
The Highway That Sparked the Demise of an Iconic Black Street in New Orleans
Claiborne Avenue was a center of commerce and culture—until a federal interstate cut it off from the rest of the city in the 1960s
Lessons Learned
A photographic homage to a momentous education experiment
The Unrealized Promise of Oklahoma
How the push for statehood led a beacon of racial progress to oppression and violence
How Thurgood Marshall Paved the Road to 'Brown v. Board of Education'
A case in Texas offered a chance for the prosecutor and future Supreme Court justice to test the legality of segregation
Log Cabin Excavation Unearths Evidence of Forgotten Black Community
Artifacts recall a thriving Maryland neighborhood that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad
To Remember the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, Commemoration Project Looks to Public Art
The Windy City was just one place that went up in flames that summer
Linda Brown, at the Center of Brown v. Board of Education, Has Died
After being refused enrollment at an all-white school in Topeka, Kansas, Brown's court case led to the historic Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation
Howardena Pindell Gets Her First Major Museum Survey
The multidisciplinary artist and activist reshaped what art could be
How a Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in 1950s America
Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited "doll test" and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education
The True Story Behind “Marshall”
What really happened in the trial featured in the new biopic of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
What Hattie McDaniel Said About Her Oscar-Winning Career Playing Racial Stereotypes
Hattie McDaniel saw herself as a groundbreaker for black Americans
Historic Photos of Baltimore Show the Real-Life "Hairspray"
<i>Hairspray Live!</i> fans, learn the history behind the beloved story
In “Defending Freedom,” the Vanguards Who Refused to Be Suppressed Are Reunited
At the African American History Museum, this exhibition graphically conveys the trials and triumphs in the battle for Civil Rights
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