The legal efforts by a team of African American lawyers to eradicate segregation ultimately led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
The acquittal of the murderers of Chicago teen Emmett Till mobilized the civil rights movement.
The Alabama governor and presidential candidate promised segregation forever.
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans.
The little-known story of a black independent film industry that produced nearly 500 feature films for African American audiences.
The story of Native peoples’ valiant resistance to expulsion from their lands and the extinction of their culture.
The Freedom Summer of 1964 saw whites and blacks coming together in a nonviolent army to bring national attention to the struggle for racial equality.
The story of the Mexican American miners whose labor battles shaped the course of Arizona history.