In celebration and honor of 100 years of Black History Month, St. Paul Public Library gathered community members to reflect, ...
Throughout Fort Jackson's 100-year history there have been a series of events that have transformed the post into the premier training installation in the Army. Included in these is the desegregation ...
ATLANTA — Their names go hand-in-hand in history at the University of Georgia. Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes were the first students to desegregate the school. While Holmes passed away in ...
"Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only-or even always the ...
BRATTLEBORO — In June 1956, Eleanor Roosevelt traveled from Hyde Park, New York to Putney, Vermont in order to give the commencement address for the Putney School. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her daily ...
In the Jim Crow South, integration was not easy, even for one of the most progressive educational institutions in the United States at the time – Black Mountain College. The college, founded in 1933 ...