Board of Education case marked a decisive turning point ... effectively overturning the previous Plessy v. Ferguson decision and its separate but equal doctrine. The impact extended far beyond ...

The case began with a rumble on a freight train ... it was used to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson because of one word: equal. Oliver Brown’s daughter had to be bused to a school far from her ...

By Destiny Chance Click here for updates on this story SENECA, S.C. (WYFF) -- An interracial couple in Seneca, South Carolina, is ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

While recently teaching about the Reconstruction Era, I needed a way to help students synthesize key concepts like the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, landmark Supreme Court cases like Plessy v.

Because when it comes to birthright citizenship, the virtue signaling and armchair excoriation is not just silly -- it's dead ...

As the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Melville Fuller — more or less the same court that decided Plessy v. Ferguson — ruled in the landmark 1898 case United States v. Wong Kim Ark ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Passage of the Act ended the application of “Jim Crow” laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Court held that racial segregation ...