Stories | Choosing To Participage Online Module

In the 1950s, segregation and ideas about "race" shaped the way
Americans in all parts of the nation saw one another as well as the way they saw themselves. As writer Jesus Colon discovered on a subway ride in New York City, those ideas also influenced the decisions people made about one another.

In the fall of 1957, those who favored segregation and those opposed it were riveted to their TV sets, as they watched a crisis unfold in Little Rock, Arkansas. Few people expected Little Rock to become the center of a crisis over integration.

It began in Billings, Montana, in the fall of 1992. It started with hate-filled fliers slipped into newspapers, stuffed into mailboxes, tucked under windshields.

The story of one boy's journey from the horrors of genocide in Cambodia to a new life in a foreign country: The United States.

*This story represents the newest installation of our traveling exhibit, and will be available in January.