Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine

A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.

The author continues her story of the events following the integration of the Little Rock schools and describes her journey toward forgiveness.

In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American s

We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolatio