On the first day of class in the fall of 1924, Martha Lum walked into the Rosedale Consolidated School. The mission-style building had been built three years earlier for white students in Rosedale, ...

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 1896, the Supreme Court issued one of the most shameful decisions in U.S. history, Plessy vs. Ferguson. Plessy upheld “separate but equal” public accommodations, barring recently freed black people ...

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 ...