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 ...

A couple in Seneca sits down with Destiny Chance to discuss prejudice they experienced directly after schools integrated, and how they overcame obstacles to celebrate 50 years in a wedding ceremony ...

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 ...

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.

In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

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 ...

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

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

The path toward equity in Austin education is long and fraught. Efforts to create fair learning opportunities for all ...