Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.

The 11-hundred square foot museum has become a growing archive of stories, images and artifacts that tell the history of the ...

The African American Museum of Southern Arizona, located in Tucson, is the only Black history museum in the state.

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Federal marshals held Ruby Bridges’ hand as she walked through a gantlet of angry white people to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans and sent troops to escort the Little Rock Nine ...

People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth As Ruby Bridges prepared to address a packed Rockefeller Chapel on Jan. 29, black ...

None of the Nine had any idea what awaited them when they reached the campus. “The Little Rock Nine were just ordinary kids,” she said. “We weren’t special.” She said it was the ...

The University held the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Commemoration Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on January 29 with featured speaker Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist who, at the ...