Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for ...

Black Louisianians’ yearslong battle for equal voting representation makes its third appearance at the Supreme Court next ...

The governor should have vetoed this bill. We should not set up a "separate but equal" (1896, Plessy v. Ferguson) system in Iowa, for we all know that will be "inherently unequal." (1954 ...

This scheme is a backdoor maneuver to privatize education while allowing corporations and wealthy individuals to avoid ...

If the administration's birthright citizenship executive order is implemented, "there will be a new kind of stratification" ...

I was recently removed from an academic listserv for expressing my concerns about the administration of Donald Trump. This type of self-censorship permeating across sectors, including academia, is a ...

This is what I call the Plessy game. The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson authorized racial segregation in passenger trains. That decision was glommed onto to enshrine segregation across ...

Rep. Ross Wilburn, D-Ames, said this provision in the bill “takes us back” to the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal ...

In the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896, the court provided constitutional legitimacy to racial apartheid, an injustice that persisted well into the 20th century. The legal system did not ...

New Rochelle, for example, was a haven for Black businesses from the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1896 that made it legal to have ‘separate but equal ...