civil rights

Lloyd L. Gaines: The Student Who Mysteriously Vanished After Winning a Segregation Case Against the University of Missouri

Lloyd Lionel Gaines was a civil rights pioneer who sued the University of Missouri for denying him admission to its law school solely because he was African American. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, mandating that Missouri...
- Advertisement -

Latest News

Dr. Jack Macon: The Enslaved African Healer Who Risked Everything to Practice Medicine in 1800s Tennessee

In the early 1800s, deep in the American South where slavery and superstition ruled side by side, an enslaved...