Walter Francis White

Who counts determines whose interests are represented in government.

An excerpt from ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I.

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

On these pages you will meet Monroe Nathan Work, who lived from 1866- 1945. This website is a rebirth of one piece of his work.

The UAW's patient organizing cemented an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

The unity of two long-neglected communities during trying times is a reminder of what we desperately need in Los Angeles.

Digging deeper, offering historical context and going beyond official narratives will better serve the audience.

The charges, while provocative, offer a framework to reckon with systemic racial injustice — past and present.

Over a 100 years ago, white mobs organized by white elites and planters in Arkansas swarmed into rural Black sharecropping communities in the Arkansas Delta.

As African Americans achieved economic success in Atlanta in the early 1900s, the city simmered with racial strife that was further spread by yellow journalism.

These men, who had sacrificed so much for the country, faced racist attacks in 1946 as they laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement to come.

In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.

In the Jim Crow South, the Alabama Communist Party distinguished itself as a champion of racial and economic justice.

Commemorating the event that hardened the lines of segregation in the city.

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.

A history of filmmakers retelling the story of New York’s architecture.

Lies about history long protected lynching.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.