Harvard University has agreed to settle a dispute over who has the rights to images of enslaved Africans taken in 1850 by a ...

Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, segregation laws, known as Jim Crow laws, created restrictions for Black Americans. While these laws were constantly challenged, it wasn't until ...

His color photos — one of black children standing ... Alabama” (above). The exhibit, “Segregation Story,” set to originally close Dec. 20, has just been extended a month, says gallery ...

Images depicting these events may contain themes or terms that do not reflect current acceptable language. The Hechinger Report edited the original captions for clarity and style. 1954: The Supreme ...

which is showing Parks’ photos in an exhibition, “Segregation Story,” through Dec. 20. By following multiple generations of this one family, Parks showed how segregation touched the lives of ...

Images of segregation in urban areas abound, but there’s something especially disturbing about seeing the practice carried into the supposedly utopian outdoor playground of a national park.

Linda Brown said she felt “disheartened” that the nation still talked about school segregation. As a third-grader, Brown had sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka; she was denied ...

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime ... revived the ghetto as a site of enforced Jewish segregation. As places of mass starvation and disease ...

But the legacy of segregation lurks beneath the surface ... Photograph by Afro Newspaper, Gado/Getty Images These arrivals fueled northern fears about Black newcomers. So did concerns about ...