Two Delaware schools played an important role in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools 70 years ago and marked a turning point in America’s civil ...
1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Credit - Paul Slade—Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Trump and his allies argue ...
Alana Laforest, a rising junior at Boston Latin Academy, has taken U.S. history classes and was among the first students in the city to take an Advanced Placement African American studies class this ...
On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...
Desegregation efforts in the Tucson Unified School District started with a lawsuit filed 38 years ago. In 1974, two families filed separate lawsuits against the district to address disparities in the ...
Summer campers in New Orleans are getting to walk in the footsteps of school desegregation pioneers at a new civil rights center in the Lower 9 th Ward. "We are here at historic McDonogh 19 now known ...
Shortly before Michael Gengler graduated from Gainesville High School in 1962, he asked the student body if they were in favor of desegregation. With 38% responding “yes” and 62% responding “no,” he ...
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84. Juvenile arrested after bomb threats at New Jersey polling location. Mississippi highway incident 2nd ...
Video above: Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers and King of the Blues, B.B. King were given a centennial celebration for all of their contributions to Mississippi.In honor of Black History Month ...