A truck towing what appeared to be a pair of house trailers pulled up to Parker Elementary School on Jan. 15, 1962. The aluminum structures, ordered by the Chicago Board of Education and built by ...

Sixty-four years ago this month, the Louisiana Legislature passed a bill giving parents public money to pay for private school. Gov. Jimmie Davis signed it on Dec. 4, 1960, less than a month after ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth.