with the former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest as its national leader. Because Klansmen operated in their home counties, they knew which local black activists to target for ...

In Nashville, in 1867, they drew up a constitution, picked for their Imperial Wizard the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest ... Anyone—white or black—who cooperated with Reconstruction ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest. The proposal would have removed ... Speech that slavery was the “natural and normal condition” of black people. Another sculpture of Stephens can be found in the ...

East matters because he raised a voice in protest when almost no one else would (and in a county named for Nathan Bedford Forrest ... take a tire iron to a black man’s head for asking the ...

Memphis Police Department officers stand on Riverside Drive during a February 2024 protest. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 ...

Her commitment to education extended to all ages. In 1922, she opened Fort Worth’s first nursery school for Black children – ...

Black infants and children face twice the risk of death as White children, finds a new study. A population-based surveillance study tracked excess infant and child deaths among Black Americans ...

A report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission brings family testimony together with extensive analysis to create a policy ...

Her family was safe, but devastation quickly compounded a painful realization: Black children were portrayed as disposable, and New Orleans’ education system was almost completely privatized.

Investigators met with the girl, and they said she’d also been given a black eye and bruising to her forehead. Further investigation showed the girl lived in a home with two other children.