The rollercoaster that was 2020 produced several events that will be remembered for decades to come. Americans this year witnessed just the third impeachment trial of a sitting president in U.S. history, the worst pandemic in more than 100 years and a nationwide reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality. But […]
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The Firsts: The Desegregation of a Tennessee School
Editor’s Note: This is the second story in The Firsts, a five-part series about the children who desegregated America’s schools. The dress Jo Ann Allen Boyce had picked out for her first day of school, August 27, 1956, was beautiful: a black top and matching skirt with a pattern around […]