James A. Hood, Student Who Challenged Segregation, Dies at 70
James A. Hood, who integrated the University of Alabama in 1963 together with his fellow student Vivian Malone after Gov. George C. Wallace capitulated to the federal government in a signature moment...
View ArticleThurmond’s mixed-race daughter dies
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of onetime segregationist senator Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died. She was 87.Vann...
View ArticleBill to clear Scottsboro Boys in Ala.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they were gang-raped. Now, state officials are trying to exonerate them in a famous case...
View ArticleMichael Lind: The White South’s Last Defeat
Michael Lind is the author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States and co-founder of the New America Foundation. In understanding the polarization and paralysis that afflict...
View ArticleSarah Carr: In Southern Towns, 'Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong
Sarah Carr is a contributing editor at The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education-news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University, and author of the forthcoming book Hope...
View ArticleIs a House a Home in the Segregated 1950s?
Luck of the IrishClaire Tow Theater/Lincoln Center 150 West 65th StreetNew York, N.Y.In the middle of the nineteenth century, Boston was the capital of the anti-slavery movement. The capital of...
View ArticleCPAC attendee: "Why can’t we just have segregation?"
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended...
View ArticleIn Mississippi, a gray area between black and white
CLEVELAND, Miss.—The Illinois Central railroad tracks that once separated residents, white from black, have been torn out to make way for a landscaped promenade.Cleveland's largest high school, founded...
View ArticleDetroit wall dividing whites and blacks in 1940s remains, spurs art, jobs and...
DETROIT — When Eva Nelson-McClendon first moved to Detroit’s Birwood Street in 1959, she didn’t know much about the wall across the street. At 6 feet tall and a foot thick, it wasn’t so imposing,...
View ArticleUnlikely interracial WWII romance
The nurse and the soldier may never have met – and eventually married – had it not been for the American government’s mistreatment of black women during World War II.Elinor Elizabeth Powell was an...
View ArticleGeorge Wallace’s daughter lives in shadow of his segregationist stand
For 50 years Peggy Wallace Kennedy has lived in the shadow cast by her father, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, when he stood in a doorway and tried to stop two black students from integrating the...
View ArticleWhy the Business Community and the GOP Base are Parting Ways on Immigration
Lester Maddox, future governor of Georgia, picketing in Atlanta in 1965.Author: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Bio: 8-5-13Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is assistant professor of history at Loyola University...
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