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St. Louis History in Black and White

Interviews with historians, authors, and individuals who were part of the civil rights movement.

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Education Achievement Gap

Education Achievement Gap

For generations, African American students in St. Louis and the region have performed at a lower level than their counte... Read more

2 Sep 2011

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Exodusters

Exodusters

During the years immediately following Reconstruction, 1879 and 1880, there was a massive migration of formerly enslaved... Read more

2 Sep 2011

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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer

1964 was an important year in the struggle for equal rights. It was the year of the Civil Rights Act and the year in whi... Read more

2 Sep 2011

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Growing Up Black in St. Louis

Growing Up Black in St. Louis

St. Louis has the dubious distinction of being one of the most racially polarized cities in the nation. However, it woul... Read more

2 Sep 2011

15mins

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Hardships for African-American Girls

Hardships for African-American Girls

The life of young African Americans in poor urban neighborhoods can be more difficult than their Caucasian or African Am... Read more

2 Sep 2011

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Impact of Obama's Race Speech

Impact of Obama's Race Speech

During the 2008 presidential campaign, then Senator Barack Obama delivered what was largely considered his most importan... Read more

2 Sep 2011

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Jefferson Bank Confrontation

Jefferson Bank Confrontation

One of the most important chapters in St. Louis civil rights history was written in the late summer of 1963 when African... Read more

2 Sep 2011

20mins

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

World renowned singer-dancer-actress Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis in 1906.For the next 69 years of her life, sh... Read more

2 Sep 2011

10mins

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Obama Post Election

Obama Post Election

When Barack Obama was elected president he acknowledged that the historic election of a black man was only possible by h... Read more

2 Sep 2011

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Pruitt-Igoe

Pruitt-Igoe

The Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis was built in 1954 and hailed as the prototype of what public housing... Read more

2 Sep 2011

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