Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'civil rights'

Browse all alternate history scenarios about 'civil rights'.

What If Brown v. Board of Education Was Decided Differently?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the U.S. Supreme Court upheld 'separate but equal' in 1954, profoundly altering the trajectory of civil rights, constitutional law, and American society.

What If Busing Never Happened?

Exploring the alternate timeline where court-ordered school desegregation busing never became a nationwide policy in the United States, potentially altering the course of civil rights progress, educational equality, and racial integration in America.

What If Education Was Never Segregated?

Exploring the alternate timeline where racial segregation never took hold in American education, potentially reshaping the nation's social, economic, and political landscape from the post-Civil War era onward.

What If Historically Black Colleges and Universities Were Never Needed?

Exploring the alternate timeline where racial segregation in American higher education never took hold, eliminating the need for separate Black colleges and universities and profoundly reshaping American education, society, and racial progress.

What If Nelson Mandela Died in Prison?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Nelson Mandela never survived his 27-year imprisonment, dramatically altering South Africa's transition from apartheid and reshaping global anti-racism movements.

What If Reconstruction Was More Successful?

Exploring the alternate timeline where post-Civil War Reconstruction in the United States achieved its goals of racial equality, lasting political transformation, and economic integration of formerly enslaved people.