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4 days ago · American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. Its roots were in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to abolish slavery and resist racial oppression.
- Du Bois to Brown
Yet, even as the NAACP consolidated its national dominance...
- Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act, (1964), comprehensive U.S. legislation...
- Monuments of Hope, Memorials to a Poisoned Past
It would take an entire civil rights movement, including the...
- Du Bois to Brown
May 16, 2024 · Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
1 day ago · Historically, there was extensive and long-lasting racial discrimination against African Americans in the housing and mortgage markets in the United States, as well as discrimination against Black farmers whose numbers massively declined in post-WWII America due to anti-Black local and federal policies.
May 16, 2024 · Summary & Background. Historically, the Black and African American communities in Rio Grande Valley have been small and tightly-knit (see McAllen Monitor, 1999). The first people of indigenous African descent arrived in the Rio Grande Valley region as enslaved people.
May 15, 2024 · In 1954, everyone knew that the term “race” was a stand-in for Black. The NAACP had mounted a decades-long campaign to end separate but equal, a system originally designed to keep the formerly enslaved and their descendants as second-class citizens as part of the brutal regime of Jim Crow.
4 days ago · W.E.B. Du Bois’s notable works include The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899), the first case study of a Black community in the United States; a collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a landmark of African American literature; Black Reconstruction (1935); and the autobiography Dusk of Dawn (1940).
May 17, 2024 · African American History. How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells' Anti-Lynching Crusade. The saga of People's Grocery stands as a powerful...
