In the early 20th century, communities around the country attempted to do something about the harassment of women in public places — otherwise known as “mashing.”
In the mid-1930s, one Harlem nurse began to see the devaluation of African American lives around her as entwined with the emergent fascist threat in Europe.
Many Americans felt the U.S. had failed to live up to its ideals on its 200th anniversary. They hoped it might improve by the Declaration’s next big celebration.
Native Americans in the 1940s struggled simultaneously to secure their voting rights and protect the reservations that formed the basis for their disenfranchisement.
After World War II ended, the fascist propagandist and poet Ezra Pound returned to the U.S., where he was met with accusations of treason — and literary prizes.
A trove of letters-to-the-editor from the early 1900s show how Arturo Schomburg viewed newspapers as a bulwark against white supremacy throughout the Americas.
