Racial segregation in public schools and the controversial concept of "separate but equal" were unanimously declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, May 17, ...

Segregation was (and still is) the practice of requiring separate services, education and housing for people of color. Segregation was actually made a law in the 18 th and 19 th century because people ...

Part I. Ancestries : Seventy centuries of city-splitting : Before race mattered ; The long shadow of the Ziggurat ; Segregating strangers ; Scapegoat ghettos ; Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, ...

A collection of stories detailing what growing up Black in the South was like during segregation. A look back at three perspectives of life in the civil rights era and comparisons to today.Their hope ...

Rose Hill Cemetery is nominated to the National Register of Historic Places for local significance in the areas of Ethnic Heritage/Black and Social History for its association with racial segregation ...

On a chilly Friday in February, students of La Porte ISD’s Academy of Viola DeWalt learned about the history behind their school’s namesake. DeWalt was the first Black teacher in La Porte ISD, and ...

Leah Rothstein is full of remedies for housing segregation, many of which she includes in her new book, Just Action. The housing policy expert and former community organizer co-authored the book with ...

A collection of stories detailing what growing up Black in the South was like during segregation. A look back at three perspectives of life in the civil rights era and comparisons to today.Their hope ...