(2013) BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – When a church bombing killed four young black girls on a quiet Sunday morning in 1963, life for a young Condoleezza Rice changed forever.
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Remember Aunt Harriet | NPCA
She taught them courage and endurance. Now, Harriet Tubman’s descendants can pay their respects at a park honoring the great liberator.
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Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960 | Rare Historical Photos
On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.
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‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’: Film Review | Venice 2017 | The Hollywood Reporter
Documentarian Nancy Buirski traces this shameful 1944 incident and the legal fiasco that followed, honoring a woman of color who dared to speak out after being sexually assaulted by a group of white youths.
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Ethel Mae Matthews and the Emmaus House in Atlanta | Black Perspectives
Fifty years ago, Emmaus House opened its doors for the first time. Located in Peoplestown, a deprived neighborhood southeast of downtown Atlanta, Emmaus House is a community advocacy and support center.
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‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ | The New York Times Magazine
They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?
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Was Lead Belly a protest singer? A conversation with NMAAHC director Lonnie Bunch III | Folkways
Lead Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949).
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The ‘slave block’ in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go? | The Guardian
A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?
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The Youngest of the Little Rock Nine Speaks About Holding Onto History
Carlotta Walls LeNier, whose school dress is in Smithsonian, says much was accomplished and now we need to hold onto it.
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Hidden Figure | VUMC Voice
In 1964, with little fanfare, Harold Jordan, M.D., became the first African-American resident physician at Vanderbilt. Looking back to that time, he recalls the support of his colleagues and the challenges he faced.
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