The Archive

50 Stories
Montgomery, AL • 1960s

My Parents Taught Me That Voting Wasn’t Optional
Drew, MS • 1960s

We Integrated an All-White School. Then We Were Evicted.
New Orleans, LA • 1950s

After Jim Crow, I Saw New Orleans’ Black Middle Class Thrive. Then Came ‘Jeff Crow.’
New Orleans, LA • 1960s

We Desegregated a New Orleans School Before Ruby Bridges. History Forgot Us.
Gary, IN

Shoe Repairman in Gary Restores Community, One Sole at a Time
Atlanta, GA • 1960s

My Sit-Down With MLK’s Father in 1968 Sparked My Passion to Feed Atlanta’s Homeless
Atlanta, GA • 1960s

I Witnessed the ‘Whites Only’ Signs Come Down. Then I Saw What Replaced Them.
Atlanta, GA • 1960s

I Watched Atlanta Police Kill an Unarmed Black Man in 1966. It Changed My Life.
Washington, D.C. • 2020s

I Wish My Generation Had Our Own ‘A Different World’
Washington, D.C. • 1970s

We Used to Watch All the Neighbors’ Kids
Gary, IN • 1980s

A Customer Told Me She Picked Cotton. I Saw My Story, Too.
New Orleans, LA • 2000s

I Make Art in New Orleans, Knowing It Will Disappear
Atlanta, GA • 1960s

I Was the First Black Graduate of UGA, and I Was Treated Like a Trespasser
New Orleans, LA • 2000s

I Almost Lost My Arm After Katrina. But Nothing Could Make Me Leave Home.
Money, MS • 1950s

My Cousin Emmett Till Was Bigger Than Life. I Was With Him the Night He Was Killed.
Miami, FL • 2020s

I’m From Little Haiti, the Part of Miami Tourists Never See
New Orleans, LA • 1980s

I’ve Been Shooting Polaroids of Black New Orleans Since 1984. There’s No Archive Like Mine.
Gary, IN • 1970s

The Women Who Raised Me Never Taught Me to Fear White People
Gary, IN • 1950s

I Never Tried to Stop Being Southern
Royal, FL • 2010s

There Are Only Two Black Homesteading Communities in America. Mine Is One of Them.
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