York's Penn Park served as a starting point for freedmen and later became a gathering place for civil rights vigils and protests.

In the days following the Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg, a violent moment was the talk of farmhouses around Warrington Township in northern York County.

York's Penn Park served as a starting point for freedmen and later became a gathering place for civil rights vigils and protests.

Two visitors sought to add to York residents’ understanding about their home county.

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case surrounding freedom happened right here in York County.

Racial confrontation in the square prompted tolerance reform.

Locals are working to uncover the stories behind the people buried at this resting place.

In Mount Pigsah Cemetery, a quiet, hillside resting place, rests the bodies of African Americans and Native Americans.

When McKinley and Mittie Grimes boarded the train in Bamberg, S.C., in the 1920s, they were ready to follow the rails that had transported scores of their townspeople and kinsmen to the North.

Edwin A. Rivera, an Army veteran, and his wife, Delma, moved their young family to a large North York house in the early 1960s. They were 20th-century pioneers.