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1956: Transitioning to the Modern World

The world changed in 1956. The year served as a transition period for America as people uneasily wondered which direction events would turn....

The country might have been a different place had John Kennedy lived. He lacked Lyndon Johnson’s legislative abilities which would have...

Civil Rights Act/Voting Rights Act (1964, 1965): The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act dramatically leveled the playing field. After three...

Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941): America finally entered World War II when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. U.S. entry into the war marked a turning...

Revisiting the FBI’s Dirty War on Black AmericaBy Earl Ofari HutchinsonThe tale of FBI informant Ernest Withers is now well known. He spent...

Lyndon Johnson was an unlikely civil rights advocate. Throughout his career, the Texas Democrat showed no inclination to support civil rights....

Rosa Parks was on her way home after working all day at the Montgomery Fair Department Store as a seamstress. Her feet were hurting and she sat...

Google is celebrating the 55th anniversary of Rosa Parks, the "first lady of the civil rights movement,"refusing to move to give her bus...

This individual helped found the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), was a major organizer of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, was involved in...