DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — It was just a different era is all George Williams can say when he thinks about growing up in the 1950s and '60s as a kid. He said it's a period in his life marked by segregation.

(CNN) — At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early 1950s never received their high school diplomas. Seventy ...

SATURDAY EVENING. TO YOU, ANDREW GARDNER AND I’M LORD ADAMS. TWO FAMILIES ARE BEING RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR FIGHT FOR RACIAL EQUALITY. TODAY WAS A RIBBON CUTTING TO CELEBRATE A NEW PARK IN THEIR HONOR.

San Antonio Missions outfielder Joe Durham was leading the Texas League in hitting with a .391 batting average through fifty games in early June 1957. Here’s guessing no one then would have known what ...

Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools by race in Brown v. Board of Education, racial and economic segregation remains "commonplace" ...

"Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott" is a worthwhile exhibition not only for the stunning photography comprising it, but also for the story behind the exhibit itself. The exhibition shows photographs by ...

Growing up in a big family in Lancaster’s segregated Southeast in the 1940s and 1950s, Betty Hurdle saw her father go to work as a short-order cook, a hospital janitor and, on Saturdays, a shoeshine.