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With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
Untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience
With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
The hidden story of the English national team’s first Black footballer.
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.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. opposed racism, imperialism, and capitalist inequity at home and around the world.
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.
From daring Civil War hero to Reconstruction-era political pioneer, the life of former slave Robert Smalls was as amazing as it was significant.
The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era
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