Black chaplain shown wearing campaign hat talking to Black troops. On way to fighting zone on August 3, 1942. (AP Photo) Seventy-five years ago, President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of ...
1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. 1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at ...
On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...