In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she ...
After the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 and 1968, many white Southerners were outraged. They believed that the federal government and the Republican Party had abandoned their values by ...
A newly unearthed memo from the Trump administration calls to mind the infamous words of the late segregationist and Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who said at his inauguration in 1963, “I draw the line ...