Category: History

  • Americans of all races and classes coming together to fight against racism

    Americans of all races and classes coming together to fight against racism

    By Robert Redford “I have a lot of vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles in the 1940s, but one in particular keeps coming back to me today, in these troubled times. I remember sitting with my parents — actually, my parents were sitting; I was lying on the…

  • Meet Ruby Bridges

    Meet Ruby Bridges

    By Remy Merriex Meet Ruby Bridges, at 6 years old, she was the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in the south. For her to attend school her first day, men with guns had to make way through a crowd of grown men and women screaming “nigger”,…