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Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...

On a chilly Friday in February, students of La Porte ISD’s Academy of Viola DeWalt learned about the history behind their school’s namesake. DeWalt was the first Black teacher in La Porte ISD, and ...

Montgomery, Ala., touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and protest marches, it remains one of the most ...

CHICAGO (AP) — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in ...

California’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law says local housing policy must include meaningful actions to replace “segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living ...

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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Much of how South Carolina has seen its civil rights history has been through the lens of photographer Cecil Williams. From sit-ins to prayer protests to portraits of African ...

Just outside the border of Longwood University — and now cordoned off by tight security and 8-foot-high black metal fencing — is what used to be Robert Russa Moton High School, where in April 1951 ...

In the early 1950s, change was rippling through society. Separate but equal laws divided American civilian sectors by race. The United States military branches were dealing with dismantling ...