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When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the "Little Rock Nine," as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America.

For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting through the door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs, racist elected officials,...

No Struggle, No Progress: A Warrior's Life from Black Power to Education Reform is the story of one man's life journey into the heart of the struggle to reform our nation's schools. Howard Fuller has dedicated his life to helping poor and working class Black people gain access to the levers of power dictating their lives. Early in his life, Fuller found truth in the words of Frederick Douglass: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." One of the driving forces of Fuller's life work has been the understanding of the relationship between struggle and...

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a bank holiday on March 5, 1933, closing banks across the country until they proved financial soundness. Meanwhile, as the United States crawled out of the Great Depression, Jesse H. Mitchell and a group of black businessmen accomplished the extraordinary--they started a black-owned bank on a street known as "Black Broadway" in the nation's capital. Mitchell, a Howard University-educated lawyer and realtor, and his friends sold $65,000 in stock, and in the sweltering heat on August 20, 1934, Industrial Bank of Washington opened for business. A range of...