Civil Rights

James Meredith, center, is escorted by federal marshals on his first day of class at the University of Mississippi.

Down In Mississippi

The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement

Artifact of bondage: This 19th-century tobacco barn (on its original site, a Kentucky alfalfa pasture, in 1998) contains an interior hut fitted with manacles. The entire structure—a slave jail—was dismantled and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where it forms the centerpiece of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which opened in August.

Free at Last

A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War

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Off the Beaten Track

During a civil rights march in 1965, photographer Bruce Davidson left the highway to focus on a single Alabama sharecropper and her nine children

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On Clipped Wings

As America's first black military pilots, Tuskegee airmen faced a battle against racism

NaNa dune, named after the Beach Lady

Beach Lady

MaVynee Betsch wants to memorialize a haven for African-Americans in the time of Jim Crow

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