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Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on, and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice. During our anniversary year, TheNation.com will highlight one “Nation Ideal” every month or two. We’ll celebrate by offering Journeys Through History—interactive multimedia timelines that present the history of each Ideal, complete with archival photographs and video. Our first Journey Through History presents the Part I of the history of the fight for civil rights and racial justice, from 1865 to 1919. Ad Policy

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Check out all of our Journeys Through History on race and civil rights!

Part I, From the Memphis riots of 1866 to the first anti-lynching conference, in New York City, in 1919.

Part II, From the “Red Summer” of racial violence in Chicago, in 1919, to Rosa Parks’s bus protest, in 1955.

Part III, From the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968.

Part IV, From the ban on segregation in housing, in 1968, to freedom for Nelson Mandela, in 1990.

Part V, From the LA riots of 1992 to the release of Selma, in 2015.