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1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
In this landmark judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of students in public schools to be unconstitutional. It signified the end of racial segregation in American schools, rejecting the notion of "separate but equal." ruling of…
Stonewall Inn
An image of the Stonewall Inn in 1969
The Gruesome Year
Scanned documents, Peter Aivars Roze explaining the impacts of the "Gruesome Year" in Latvia.
Sergeant Francis Fletcher of the 54th Massachusetts on equal pay for Black soldiers, 1864
Sergeant Francis Fletcher of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment wrote to Jacob C. Safford detailing the unequal compensation his regiment received.
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Photograph Colonel Robert Gould Shaw