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, ...

Black History Month in the United States is a time to focus on and celebrate the history of Black Americans. However, as we approach the 70 th anniversary in May of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision ...

Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court struck down universities’ use of race-based affirmative action, forbidding schools from considering race in deciding whether to admit qualified applicants. The high ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Friday marked the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sparked the end of racial segregation in public schools throughout the ...

Segregation is a common tale in American cities — most practiced discrimination in housing loans and urban renewal — but at the same time, every town has its own unique narratives. After the Civil War ...

"It was going to happen," said former city councilman Charley Fisher III. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Dr. Eva Doyle describes herself as one of the "regular Saturday shoppers" at the Tops supermarket on ...

Half a century before Ruby Bridges was born, a crowd of children defied school segregation in the town of Sheffield, Mass. It all began in the fall of 1903, when some of the white parents complained ...

The "Walker Walkouts" of the South Park boycott school were taught by teachers Corinthian Nutter (back left) and Hazel McCray-Weddington (back right) during the 1948-49 school year. The lead ...

America has long been subject to the restriction of people to specific spaces based on their race, a phenomenon also known as racial segregation. The nation holds a long history of witnessing African ...