Throughout US history, a ‘white backlash’ has worked to keep Black officeholders and their constituents out of power. Atlanta DA Fani Willis is just the latest.
A newspaper headline and photo show the arrival of the Molokans in Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Star via Library of Congress
In a territory landowners wanted to become a state, white immigrants were less threatening to American nativists on the mainland.
Voting rights activists protest voter restriction laws being passed in states across the country, in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2021.
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Americans tend to think of diversity in demographic terms, but it has a qualitative element to it that reflects a fundamental battle between segregation and integration.
Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, right, beat James Jeffries in 1910, sparking racial violence.
George Haley, San Francisco Call, via University of California, Riverside, via Library of Congress
Johnson’s victory, in the manliest of sports, contradicted claims of racial supremacy by whites and demonstrated that Blacks were no longer willing to acquiesce to white dominance.
President-elect Biden promises a new White House agenda and style.
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Scholars of race, foreign policy and the Supreme Court give their informed predictions of what to expect under a Biden administration.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, documents the lynchings of more than 4,400 people between 1877 and 1950.
AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz
Research into how war-torn and fractured nations find justice and societal reconciliation finds ways to establish sustainable and lasting peace in divided societies.
Pfc Elias Friedensohn in June 1945 at the Special Services Distributing Point, Seine Section, Paris, France.
National Archives
An unprecedented survey of US GIs that began in 1941, preserved on microfilm, provides a raw and uncensored story of average Americans grappling with both national ideals and practical necessities.
In this October 1998 photo, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu dance after Tutu handed over the final report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Pretoria.
(AP Photo/Zoe Selsky)
Wherever there is an ugly, unresolved injustice pulling at the fabric of a society, there is an opportunity to haul it out in public and deal with it through a truth commission.