Millions of Americans Opposed Racial Equality

Segregation

in America

Racial segregation had a long and enduring history in America, supported by courts, laws, and elected officials. The pervasive effects of that legacy are still felt today.

Report

Segregation in America re-examines the civil rights era by focusing on the people and powers that opposed racial equality, to better understand the challenges of that era still before us today.

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Segregationists

Senators, governors, judges, writers, ministers, and other figures boldly led the movement to maintain segregation through their words and deeds.

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Iconography

There are thousands of monuments in America that glorify the era of enslavement and its legacy. Many monuments were erected to maintain white supremacy long after the Civil War.

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Videos

Video footage from the segregation era documents the millions of white Americans who arrested, beat, bombed, and terrorized civil rights demonstrators, including children.

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