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 ...

Concept of segregation in America illustrated by view of map with two students standing on opposite sides of line. Seventy years after the Supreme Court outlawed separating public school children by ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a "whites-only" railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 ...

Jan. 5 (UPI) --Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a posthumous pardon Wednesday for Homer Plessy, who lost an 1896 Supreme Court challenge to the state's segregation laws. "There is no expiration ...

Explore how single-family zoning influences housing segregation, limits property diversity, and impacts racial wealth gaps in ...