Jazzman James Reese Europe Taught White America How to Swing
After leading Harlem Hellfighters in battle, renowned band leader lost his life in backstage fracas
How the Pecan Strike Cracked San Antonio’s Power Structure
Mexican-Americans' brave stand against city politicians, the Catholic Church, and the police changed labor history
Lincoln Memorial: A Temple of Tolerance
Cruel irony of segregated dedication ceremony has given way to reverence and rallies
Supreme Court OK’d Deporting Japanese-American Citizens to the Desert
Repudiated decision upheld presidential power to counter perceived national security threats
This Week in History – Women’s Suffrage 1869
The push for women to get the vote was disrupted by the Civil War, but the movement began to heat up again with Reconstruction.
Insidious Inspiration: How Jim Crow Inspired the Nazis
American statutes barring interracial sex and marriage were model for anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
Manassas: How This Southern City Came To Be More Than a Battlefield
Destroyed in the war, isolated Virginia rail junction was rebuilt in a spirit of reconciliation
Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment
Belle Da Costa Greene: Passing Fancy
A black activist's daughter reinvented herself on the other side of the color line
Birthright Citizenship: Who Gets to Be an American
From Dred Scott to anchor babies, 'Born in the USA' has caused hot debate
Jesse L. Brown: The U.S. Navy’s First Black Aviator
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier
Martin Luther King Jr.’s First Assassination Attempt
A decade before he was gunned down, a madwoman stuck a shiv in the civil rights leader's chest.
