President Harry Truman was a product of heavily segregated Missouri, a former slave state and bastion of the Ku Klux Klan. He ...

In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.

BATESBURG-LEESVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina town has honored the memory of a black WWII veteran whose 1946 beating at the hands of a white police chief left him permanently blind and helped spur ...

MAYFIELD, Ky. (WSIL) — One act of brutality sparked a national reckoning and helped bend the arc of American history toward justice. As part of Black History Month, community members are invited to a ...

It was a racial assault so vicious that it became one of the early chords of the civil rights movement, and led to the desegregation of the military. Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr., 26, was a decorated ...