Topic: Youth
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![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.
![A room full of African-American students attending a lecture in 1955 as part of the United Negro Collection fund.](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/RBF_United-Negro-College-Fund_1955_Box-1031_F6279_186-500x500.jpg)
1960s
The Origins of the Rockefeller Foundation Equal Opportunity Program
How a simple grant request seeded the launch of a full program addressing inequality.
![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.
![Elementary children of diverse ethnic backgrounds get ready to go inside their school, two hold hands](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SchoolchildrenPhoto_TFAE_DecadeOfExperiment-500x500.jpg)
1950s
1960s
Can Data Drive Social Change? Tackling School Segregation with Numbers
In the years before Brown v. Board, a philanthropic fund hoped research and data would turn the tide on attitudes toward segregation.