Pope’s formative essay in 1960 encouraging the fight for civil rights was published in the New York Times and several newspapers around the country, pushing Americans against segregation throughout the country.

Under former President Donald Trump, several attempts were made to cut funding to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program.

‘This is an assault on the craft of teaching,’ said a teacher in Tennessee. ‘It’s asking me to show up and ignore parts of my own identity.’

Four Black students were refused service and declined to give up their seats at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.

Civil rights activists say they’re concerned that their hard-won achievements are slipping away.

The Trump administration said local governments are overburdened by an Obama-era rule intended to ensure communities confront racial segregation in housing.