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 ...

Boynton Beach city commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to repeal three segregation ordinances created a century ago. The ordinances — which haven’t been enforced for decades — separated ...

Civil rights leader Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. This led to African-Americans boycotting public transportation to ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil rights ...

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 ...

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 ...

OCR, like any agency, has its flaws—its process is quite slow, for instance. But on balance, it is a safeguard for all students on campus, and especially women and minority groups. And that is ...

Black Judges Discuss Growing Up During Segregation, Efforts to Diversify the Profession “Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie ...

Christian Estevez, the son of Dominican immigrants, grew up in the 1970s in Plainfield, New Jersey, at a time of widespread white flight. Most of the children in his crowded elementary school classes ...

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 ...