White Americans long for the 1950s, when they didn’t face so …
In a new poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) on Tuesday, a whopping 43 percent of Americans told researchers that discrimination against whites has become as large a...
These Photos Offer a Glimpse Into the Racial Politics of the …
2017年4月19日 · These images are collected for the first time in a new book of Zimmerman’s early work, America in Black and White, and an accompanying traveling exhibition. They offer an intimate look at the...
The 1950s ‑ American Culture & Society - HISTORY
2010年6月17日 · Though the G.I. Bill helped white Americans prosper and accumulate wealth in the postwar years, it didn’t deliver on that promise for veterans of color. In fact, the wide disparity in the bill’s...
Racial Violence in the 1950s - Equal Justice Initiative
2020年1月27日 · The National Memorial for Peace and Justice documents the era of racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950. Racially motivated violence and lynchings continued after 1950, often targeting civil rights leaders and Black …
Before the 1950s, the Whiteness of Compton was Defended …
2011年1月11日 · "It's difficult to overstate how white Compton was in the early 50s and late 40s--exclusively white with an extraordinary web of racially restrictive covenants with a very aggressive policing strategy about keeping black people out," explained historian Josh Sides, the director of the Center for Southern California Studies at CSU Northridge.
Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia
By 2010, the number of Hispanics identifying as white has increased by a wide margin since the year 2000 on the 2010 US census form, of the over 50 million people who identified as Hispanic and Latino Americans a majority 53% identified as "white", 36.7% identified as "Other" (most of whom are presumed of mixed races such as mestizo or mulatto ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
In the summer of 1955, a surge of anti-black violence included the kidnapping and brutal murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, a crime that provoked widespread and assertive protests from black and white Americans.
Interracial couple in 1950s: bravery, faith and turning the other ... - CNN
2011年10月17日 · She respected his bravery in coming to a virtually all-white school like Swarthmore and good-naturedly confronting the racism he had encountered in his life.
The fight for civil rights in 1950s and 1960s America
During the 1950s and 1960s, the civil rights movement made significant progress. The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of...
Whiteness - National Museum of African American History and …
Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America.