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The Joke’s on Us

In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously?

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The Undoing of a Tennessee Town

Jo Ann Allen Boyce and 11 other students desegregated their high school in Clinton, Tennessee. Then the riots came.

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The Limits of Desegregation in Washington, D.C.

Hugh Price and his family fought for him to be one of the first Black students at his all-white high school in Washington, D.C. But once he was there, he “couldn’t wait for it to be over.”