(CNN) — At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early 1950s never received their high school diplomas. Seventy ...

Oklahoma City has taken a significant step in commemorating the 1950s protests against segregation with the installation of a ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — It was just a different era is all George Williams can say when he thinks about growing up in the 1950s and '60s as a kid. He said it's a period in his life marked by segregation.

Representatives of the Congress of Racial Equality and student groups mass at the Columbus City Hall steps on April 18, 1964 to support civil rights leaders protesting alleged de factor segregation in ...

On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black Supreme Court justice. As chief counsel for the NAACP ...

In 1941, a concrete wall was raised not to protect—but to divide. Hidden behind Detroit’s most famous road is a story of racism, redlining, and resistance that still echoes today ...

When the White House began hosting its annual Easter egg roll in 1878, Black people were not allowed to attend. Beginning in 1891, many African American families began to gather at the Smithsonian ...

At 42, Tameka Bostick decided she wanted to learn how to swim. Bostick said she tried to sign her teenager up for lessons, too, but her daughter said she wanted her mother to learn to swim first. "'Ma ...

As a Black Southerner and the son and grandson of Jim Crow survivors, my life exists in the shadow of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court decision that turns 70 years old on May ...