In the decade that followed the Civil War, two questions dominated political debate: To what degree were African Americans now “equal” to white Americans, a

Rather than trying to reconcile the various conflicting accounts of the period just after the US Civil War, or to present a complete account of Reconstruction,

Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the cit

Examines more than fifty significant congressional debates, arranged in chronological order and accompanied by introductory essays that outline the opposing for

On May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. When the