The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most popular New Deal programs, provided work, education, and recreation opportunities for hundreds of thousands of young African American men.
With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
The Parkridge Country Club demonstrated the fragile promise of African American recreational space in 1920s Los Angeles
West Indian, especially Barbadian, migrant labor on the Panama Canal changed shipping routes, benefitted the U.S. economy, and affected immigration for decades afterward.
How the Santee-Cooper Project Disregarded the Dead and the Living
The Fight to Desegregate Savannah Beach
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