America’s complicated history with race can be told through the lives and times of Black Americans, a view that some GOP-controlled state legislatures want to restrict, if not outright ban.
- Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College
At the time, Gallup polls showed that fewer than 20% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.
Comprised mostly of Black soldiers, the Red Ball Express transported supplies day and night and is given credit for providing a strategic advantage over the Nazi military.
An Interracial Kiss – on Another Planet
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In 1968, the idea of romance between the races was still a controversial proposition. That made it all the more revolutionary when an episode of Star Trek featured a kiss between black and white characters, the first interracial kiss on American TV.
The career arc of Nichelle Nichols – the first black woman to have a continuing co-starring role on TV – shows how diverse casting can have as much of an impact off the screen as it does on it.
What WWII-era African-American protests reveal about the historical relationship between Nazism and white supremacy in the United States.
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