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Bayard Rustin was an African American leader who worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) in the 1940s and 1950s for equal rights for all Americans using nonviolence. In this story, he writes about the struggle for an African American man to order a simple hamburger at a restaurant in the Midwest.

This speech, delivered by then-President Bill Clinton, recognized and apologized for the study conducted by the United States government on more than 500 unknowing African-American soldiers at Tuskegee for untreated syphilis.

The text is a letter from J.H. Adams to the Bethlehem Baptist Association written in 1918.

A Ku Klux Klan newspaper from February 1923 published in Indianapolis, Indiana.

This interview with NAACP lawyer Constance Baker Motley discusses her experience at the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A document declaring the principles of the Niagara Movement conference

On April 14, 1947, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the lower court decision in Mendez v. Westminster, which required the school to integrate and set the stage for Brown v. Board of Education.

This text contains sections of the Federal Housing Administration’s underwriting manual that detail valuations of property based on racial factors.

This pairing of the slideshow and song displays the resilience and dedication of civil rights marchers as they marched for freedom.