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Race-related controversies in the United States
- Racial segregation in the United StatesIn 1832, Prudence Crandall admitted an African American girl to her all-white Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut.
- Slavery in the United StatesIn 1703, more than 42 percent of New York City households held enslaved people in bondage. This figure stood second only to Charleston, South Carolina, where…
- Removal of Confederate monuments and memorialsThe Robert E. Lee monument in New Orleans stands as a stark symbol of the era that built it, yet its removal on the 19th of May 2017, marked only one chapter…
- Reconstruction eraOn the 9th of April 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
- Donald SterlingDonald T. Sterling was born Donald Samuel Tokowitz on the 26th of April 1934, in Chicago. His family moved to the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles when he…