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“Padam and Purna were forced from their homeland in Bhutan and trapped in camps in Nepal for decades before being resettled in an alien land: Clarkston, Georgia. The refugees have found some stability, but still feel frustrated and uprooted, which leads to domestic violence and suicide in the refugee community. Padam and Purna realized that familiar food is the first step to feeling at home. They have opened a food store and other refugee-run businesses, which offer safe spaces and sources of mutual support for all the Asian refugees in Clarkston, who are united by their experience of trauma.”

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.

Graça Machel dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of children—especially those who have fallen victim to war—all over the world.

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