These judgments aimed to prevent discrimination against Black Americans ... racism across America. Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks refusing to give up their seats on buses when white people ...

Arms wide, head back, he radiates joy, even in antique black and white. That beautiful soprano ... music was never going to be simple. America in the 1950s: postwar economy roaring, a chicken ...

The exhibition catalogue is co-published by The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Gordon Parks Foundation and features approximately 80 black-and-white photographs of the Fontenelle family ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family ... being single and pregnant was totally unacceptable, especially for white women. Girls who "got in trouble" were forced to drop ...