#studying segregation

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Studying While Black During the Jim Crow Era

A look back on how northern schools like Teachers College welcomed Black graduate students blocked from attending schools in the segregation

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"What this park has always meant": Detroit's Birwood Wall gets historical marker

Detroit’s Birwood Wall has been designated a historic Michigan site. It has a new marker in the park, telling the story of how and why the w

Detroit's Birwood Wall, in the Eight Mile-Wyoming neighborhood, that was once meant to separate white households from Black ones, gets historical marker

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Virginia adds 2 segregation-era black schools to historic landmarks register | Watchful Eye | NewsBreak Original

Image of black students during segregation that was used in the Brown vs. The Board of Education case.Photo byNational archives. Two segrega

Two segregation-era schools for Black students--Julius Rosenwald High School—Northumberland and Union Street School—Loudoun were added to the Virginia Landmarks Register on December 8 during the state's Board of Historic Resources quarterly meeting.

Now that are officially Virginia historical landmarks, these schools will also be forwarded to the National Park Service for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The colorful South Carolina State Fair was once black and white.

The Palmetto State Fair was a separate fair for African Americans from 1890 to 1969.

For nearly 80 years, African Americans had their own fair, first called the Colored, or Negro, State Fair, and eventually the Palmetto State Fair. “The Reconstruction era in Columbia provided African Americans with a lot more freedom than they had after the period ended,” Margaret Dunlap said. “That was around 1878, 1880. During that time, things got a lot more constricted. And then throughout the 20th century, there was just more separation of the races socially, through fear and intimidation that might have kept African Americans from wanting to go to the white fair, or feeling welcome there....

But the Palmetto State Fair allowed for black entertainers, black schools, black students, black farmers to really mingle, learn from each other and feel free at their own fair and their own organization.”

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Los Angeles County Votes to Return Beach Seized in 1924 From a Black Family

Ownership of the property, known as Bruce’s Beach, will be transferred to descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce, who bought the land in 191

"Charles and Willa Bruce used the land [Bruce's Beach] to build a resort that other Black families could visit without facing racist harassment. But in 1924, Manhattan Beach officials voted to condemn the land through eminent domain, claiming to need it for a public park.

“It is well documented that this move was a racially motivated attempt to drive out the successful Black business and its patrons,” the county Board of Supervisors said last week in a motion to complete the return of the land.

The Bruces fought to keep their property through litigation, but they failed and lost their business. The city of Manhattan Beach paid them $14,500, and kept the land until it was transferred in 1948 to the state, which transferred it to Los Angeles County in 1955. The county ultimately developed a public park on the nearly 7,000-square-foot parcel."