Hidden in the woods of Maryland stood Henryton State Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium built in 1922 exclusively for African Americans. While white patients were treated in well-funded facilities, Black patients were sent to Henryton—remote, underfunded, and neglected. Families often couldn’t visit, and the hospital’s creation was less about care than about segregation. By the 1960s, […]
Black Mayors of small towns are under attack by White bigots. This video is a update and awareness about Black Mayors Of Small Towns and the racism, the White supremacy they deal with. Patrick Braxton a Black man who says he was elected mayor of of a Alabama town but has been kept from taking […]
Black protestors organized a nonviolent protest and walked onto Biloxi Beach on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast in order to have a “wade-in” challenging the segregated beach area. The protest took place on April 26, 1960 when Black activists were met by a group of angry white people who told them to leave the beach. Once the […]
At 17-years-old Mimi Jones stood up for what she believed in when she jumped into a Florida swimming pool. In June 1964 in St. Augustin, FL Jones and at least a dozen fellow activists traveled 250 miles by bus from Albany, Ga., to take part in the protest. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. labeled St. […]
Parent files complaint against Atlanta elementary school An Atlanta mother has filed a federal complaint against her daughter’s Atlanta elementary school once she found out that the school was separating students on the basis of race. The discrimination complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, parent Kila Posey alleges the […]
Earlier this year CNN reported that a study from the University of California Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute has discovered racial segregation in most major U.S. cities has increased over the last 30 years. “The study found that 81% of regions with more than 200,000 residents were more segregated in 2019 than they were in […]
Documentary series following life at a high school in South Carolina, USA. High-achieving pupil Jalena begins college application. Watch Segregated America: A School in the South on BBC Three’s iPlayer page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b9k5l/segregated-america-a-school-in-the-south-1-the-quest-to-be-the-best — Click here to subscribe to BBC Three: http://bit.ly/BBC-Three-Subscribe Did you know that we’re up to other things in other places too? Best […]