At the Dockum Drug Store, students challenged segregation in what became the nation’s first successful sit‑in.

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As all history should be told and, in this case, with particular deference to Black History Month, here's an unvarnished timeline of what it was like for the Black Packers who served as trailblazers ...

CHICO — With several 1950s cars lining East Third Avenue and quite a few students dressed in period attire, kids and adults at Hooker Oak School might have appeared to be involved in “Way Back ...

This drop in the city’s Portuguese population mirrored a decline in all of Lowell’s immigrant communities in the post-World War II period. As shown in Table 7, all of the city’s immigrant populations ...

What was life like around Louisville 70 years ago? Photos capturing the Derby City during the 1950s looks almost fictional when you compare it to today. From the fashion, to the cars and the building ...