The belief ushered in the era of racial segregation and was the reason why yours truly was born in a "separate but equal" hospital in 1961. As a little boy, I remember driving down south to visit my ...

"They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses--and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. They ...

I grew up in Louisiana during the Jim Crow era. After the Civil War, Black people began to gain power during Reconstruction. White Southern Democrats did not like this and began passing what was known ...

Beginnings -- Haiti and the Bolshevik Revolution -- World war looms -- War changes -- Red scare rising -- Back to Africa -- Cold War coming -- Negroes as anticommunist propagandists? -- Barnett ...