When a group of white and African American integrationists entered a St. Augustine, Fla. segregated hotel pool in 1964, the hotel manager poured acid into it. AP Photo Summers often bring a wave of ...
Despite the memory having faded away for so many, Ashville used to be home to a prominent school. Generations of people from ...
On a late summer day in 1906, a small group of newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia took a streetcar across town to Fairmount Park. Several miles from the cramped row houses and oppressive ...
Attendees listen to a guest speaker share the history of Anderson Bonner. All around Dallas are markers telling the rich Black history that shaped the city: White Rock Chapel, the Pittman Hotel, ...
McKeesport native Helen Richey became the first woman to fly a commercial airliner to deliver mail and transport passengers. She was part of what was known as the “air-minded movement.” Richey and ...
A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...