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Brown V. Board Of Education

Civil rights activist Reverend Francis Griffin holds school books donated for the private schooling of black children, circa 1959. Prince Edward County shut down its public school system to avoid having to desegregate. (Horizontal)

In his new book, Ken Woodley recounts how Prince Edward County, Virginia, finally began to make amends.

By Peter C. Baker

Leona Tate, 64, who helped to desegregate the Deep South when she was six years old.

Tate plans to open an educational center in the New Orleans school she attended as one of only three black students in 1960.

By Katy Reckdahl

taylor swift wildest dreams

How the pop icon has embraced Hollywood's long, rich tradition of nostalgia for black subjugation.

By Aaron Bady