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Kavita Daswani discusses her book, “The Village Bride of Beverly Hills.” She begins by describing her protagonist, Priya, who is a newly married Hindu bride who is faced with very traditional in-laws, a husband who is controlled by his mother, and…

Newspaper article about 3 African Americans arrested for being fugitive slaves in California.

Bhagat Singh Thind Went through a lot to acquire American citizenship. He went to court to try to prove that Indians are "white". He even served the US in World War i. however he got rejected before eventually being granted citizenship. His plight is…

Mechanics check engine of SNJ at Kingsville Field, NATC, Corpus Christi, Texas.

A map displaying the aerial routes of different classes of airplanes, such as bombers, and troop transport.

In a press conference, Roy Wilkins makes the claim that the NAACP was the first organization to execute sit-in protests and that the phenomenon did not actually begin with the February 1, 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in.