‘A Visual History of Civil Rights & Social Change in Pinellas County,’ Part 3
Like many other public spaces, Black people were not allowed to sit on St. Pete’s…
segregation
Swim with Kym aims to change the Black community’s relationship with water
Kymbriell Finch, owner of Swim with Kym, teaches water safety and drowning prevention…
Segregated Sand: Florida’s Beaches in the Civil Rights Movement
With more than 1,300 miles of coastline, Black Floridians had to contend with the issue…
Gas Plant/Laurel Park Reunion, part 2
Although living conditions in the complex had deteriorated by the time the city broke…
Desegregating pioneers of Pinellas County Schools
Gwendolyn Reese, president African American Heritage Association St. Petersburg BY FRANK…
St. Pete’s infamous green benches
Pictured here is an original green bench, now sitting in front of Mordecai Walker’s…
City honors the Courageous 12 with plaque at new police building
BY ROGER CLENDENING, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – The City of St. Petersburg, a…
Segregation in America
A young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal…
Sumter County, Ala., just got its first integrated school. Yes, in 2018.
By Antonia Noori Farzan | Washington Post On a typically steamy Alabama summer day in…
Two little-known events in Texas that threatened the progression of the Civil Rights movement
By Coshandra Dillard | Timeline Most Americans have learned, or at least heard, about…
Racial Segregation and How It Impacts the Health of Poor Americans
Nareissa Smith | Atlanta Black Star Home is where the heart is, but it is also…
A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
By TERRY GROSS | 90.5 WESA In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal…
29 Disturbing Pictures Of American Life Under Jim Crow
Photo: Getty Images By Gabriel H. Sanchez, BuzzFeed // More at BuzzFeed Until the Civil…
Ex-Illinois women’s basketball players sue for ‘segregated practices and punishing blacks’
Seven former University of Illinois women’s basketball players sued the university…
Why it’s so hard to talk to white people about racism
By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo The Good Men Project Dr. Robin DiAngelo explains why white…
An open letter to black America: Why you should want the Redskins’ name changed, too
BY GYASI ROSS Ross, Author, attorney, and member of the Blackfeet Nation and Suquamish…
‘Freedom Summer’ friends, 50 years later
During the ‘Freedom Summer,’ activists from the North traveled to Mississippi…
Schools more segregated now than three decades ago
BY GEORGE E. CURRY As we approach May 17, the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…