Era: Progressive Era
![Black African American Boy Scout Leaders (Scoutmasters) pose for a photograph, sitting in rows with an American flag](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LSRM_FA061_S1016_B3_F26_002_Display-500x500.jpg)
1920s
1930s
Who Belongs in the Boy Scouts? Philanthropy’s Support for Black Scouting
A foundation struggled to make one of America’s oldest youth organizations more racially inclusive. But it only got so far under Jim Crow.
![Black and white image of a group of children on a cart that is decorated with them holding signs reading "sleep", "fresh air", "good food" "dirt" and "ignorance".](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Public-Health_RF-photos_B60_F1357_2_LV-500x500.jpg)
1900s
1910s
Photo Essay: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and the American South
Battling hookworm on rural farms laid the groundwork for a global public health system.