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, ...

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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 ...

Today we're taking a look at three stories that showed the extent of how segregation and integration affected the lives of black Americans. We couldn't go to spring Bill and be there up there at the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

CHICAGOCHICAGO — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in ...