In 1946, with the support of the NAACP, Heman Marion Sweatt applied for admission to The University of Texas School of Law. The University registrar rejected his application because Sweatt was an African American and UT was a segregated institution. This
Exhibited for the first time in the Southern United States, these photographs explore and document the most important social struggle in the history of this country.
On February 1, 1960, four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students captured America's attention when they sat down at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and requested service. However, prior to this demons
In 1848, five-year-old Sarah Roberts was barred from the local primary school simply because she was black. Her father sued the City. The lawsuit was part of an organized effort by the African-American community to end racially segregated schools. A city
A brutal attack by police on peaceful marchers in 1965 put a small Alabama town on the map, galvinized the American civil rights movement and created heroes and martyrs whose names live on today. The town was Selma and one of those heroes and martyrs was
