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With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
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With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, the National Association of Colored Women, and the foundations of Black women’s struggles today.
Enslaved refugees sought freedom in Union contraband camps during the American Civil War.
The remarkable story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a forgotten founder of rock and roll.
A real-life drama performed before an audience of four.
Claude Brown testifies about the urban crisis in 1960s America.
How Paul Robeson sang to 35,000 Canadians without crossing the border
The Parkridge Country Club demonstrated the fragile promise of African American recreational space in 1920s Los Angeles
Black children played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement
Photographer Ben Shahn captures the lives of Black sharecropper families in Little Rock, Arkansas one Sunday in 1935
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