On March 20, 1924, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the nation’s cruelest, most draconian, segregation law. Designed to preserve white racial “purity,” the legislation became a model for states ...

African American men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a "Here Lies Jim Crow" sign down the middle of a street as a demonstration against "Jim Crow" segregation laws.CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images ...

Popularized by U.S. Supreme Court majorities from the 1970s to today, the de facto segregation myth has been adopted by conventional opinion, liberal and conservative alike. Contrary to popular belief ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

Washington — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday for Homer Plessy, whose refusal in 1892 to leave a Whites-only railcar led the Supreme Court to uphold state ...

Trump's decision last Thursday to strike down Obama-era anti-segregation rule seemed to come out of the blue. The measure required organizations seeking federal funding to actively demonstrate how ...

In terms of trying to right a wrong, if you will, even though Nat jumped the gun on me there for a second, but Alabama lawmakers are considering pardoning hundreds, even thousands or people who were ...

AS the nation debates Trent Lott's comments, it is important to understand what segregation really meant. First and foremost, this was not just a bad attitude but a vast set of laws designed to ...

Keep in mind that American laws of racial segregation, were not just about who could go to school with whom. American apartheid also prohibited “race-mixing” in every possible dimension of social life ...