Few legal doctrines are more dangerous or despised than that of separate but equal rights — the philosophy that legitimized racial apartheid in the United States. It took the sacrifices of the civil ...

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will issue a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, who was arrested in 1892 for challenging a ban on Black people sitting in "whites-only" train ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years ...

(The Root) — I don’t hate many things. I’m pretty good at keeping that emotion in check. But here’s a short list of things I hate: Suggested Reading Why Black People Dress up On Easter The GOP is ...

Visitors to downtown Valparaiso are becoming accustomed to hundreds of NWI Activists protesters on the courthouse lawn every couple of weeks. The liberal protesters themselves are now protesting the ...

If not, then I wonder when separate but equal became OK in this district. That wasn’t the goal of desegregation.” Putnam Hidalgo said she understands why people want to protect their own kids, but ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Donald Trump used a term from US segregationist history to describe the relationship between the Air Force and his newest military branch, the Space Force, calling it ...

Nathaniel Briggs, son of civil rights pioneer Harry Briggs, will host a film screening of “Separate But Equal” on Friday, June 9, at 6 p.m. at the Cecil Williams South Carolina Civil Rights Museum in ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Howardena Pindell created Separate But Equal in protest of apartheid—South Africa’s rigid, racially segregated caste system created and perpetuated by the country’s white ...