Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a little girl in Westminster, California, in 1945, Sylvia Mendez yearned to attend the “beautiful school” with the “nice ...

Preface -- Introduction: Producing the ground of difference -- No Easy Place Or Time: -- Black side of segregation -- Necessary space -- Double self -- Making Blackness -- Of my womanhood -- I, too, ...

Segregation governed what Black and white people knew about the other. Except while conducting business or shopping, Blacks avoided white establishments and neighborhoods at night, and vice versa.

Although Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball's color barrier in the 1940s, segregation in college football lingered another quarter-century -- a sobering fact detailed in this crisp HBO ...

Felicitas Mendez was honored Tuesday with a Google Doodle celebrating her work as a civil rights pioneer to mark the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month. Mendez, who was born in Puerto Rico in 1916, ...

Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off on Tuesday, and Google is fittingly celebrating with a new Google Doodle -- of civil rights pioneer and business owner Felicitas Mendez. Mendez, born in 1916 in ...

As a little girl in Westminster, California, in 1945, Sylvia Mendez yearned to attend the “beautiful school” with the “nice playground” where the school bus deposited her every morning. But the 9-year ...