The 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement united local organizers and the SCLC to challenge housing discrimination and residential segregation. In the United States, its marches and negotiations exposed the limits of…
In the mid-1980s, the city of Yonkers, New York, became the center of a federal civil rights battle over housing segregation. U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand ordered the city to…
In 1913, the administration of President Woodrow Wilson implemented formal racial segregation within the United States federal civil service. This policy reversed decades of integrated work environments in Washington, D.C.,…
