Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority resurrected “separate but equal” in public accommodations. In 1896, the Supreme Court issued one of the most shameful decisions in US history, ...

Iowa’s Republican-dominated House Education Committee approved a controversial anti-trans bill Tuesday that includes troubling language reminiscent of the racist “separate but equal” legal doctrine.

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 ...

Saturday marked the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, which struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. Long after this landmark civil ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE: Sixty years ago, nine black students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, putting to test a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that ...

In 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court concluded that separate educational facilities for black and white students were inherently unequal and violated the Fourteenth Amendment ...

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 ...

Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers the Supreme Court's landmark decision abolishing "separate but equal" schools in public education. School Integration, Barnard School, Washington, D.C. Photo by ...