Living as a person of color you had to have a map in your own head knowing where you were welcome and where you were not welcome. You would even have to keep track of a complex calendar for when you could go into normally segregated spaces. Drawing on the rich archive of Mexican Ameri...
Pennsylvania Station. The LPC’s mission to protect the buildings and places that represent New York City's cultural, social, economic, political, and architectural history benefits the city through stabilizing and improving property values, enhancing the city’s attraction to tourists, and fostering ...
Another local museum, theDunbar Carver Museum, sits inside the once-segregated Carver High School. Located along historic Jefferson Street, once known as Brownsville’s “Black Wall Street,” the museum highlights the lives of African Americans in Haywood County through a collection of documents, me...
begin in the earliest grades so that those children destined to be "the world's hewers of wood and drawers of water" could be removed from the usual curriculum and "segregated in special classes … given instruction which is concrete and practical" in order to make them "efficient workers."...
event of war, and for the difficult position in which the war would place them.” The group’s publicly stated purpose is to “promote racial cooperation, unity and unswerving loyalty to the United States.” That message is certainly on display at the McKinley rally, with each speech and ...
but also of a segregated South, “played on my mind a lot,” he explained. That absence became abstracted. The person missing from the seat evolved into a totem of worlds and peoples often excluded from the privileges of White America. “Every time I saw that chair, I saw Omar in (it...