Decision by decision, the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority is hardening America’s division into a two-tier society.
Joe Idlette Jr., the first Black School Board member in Indian River County, risked his life when he challenged segregation ...
It’s unclear whether the classes were held again during the current school year — and whether they actually barred non-black ...
Is it the Jim Crow era again? Because segregation may be coming back to the United States. In a public memo issued by the General Services Administration, the federal government no longer prohibits ...
In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...
In December 1953, Thurgood Marshall, an attorney who headed the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that racial segregation in America was an attempt to keep the formerly ...
Segregated schools in North Carolina have received millions in taxpayer-funded tuition payments. Together, charter schools and private school tuition voucher programs have contributed to resegregating ...