Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African American men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a "Here Lies Jim Crow" sign down the middle of a street as a demonstration ...

Soon after the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling that segregated schools are “inherently unequal,” many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be labeled just as ...

Boynton Beach city commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to repeal three segregation ordinances created a century ago. The ordinances — which haven’t been enforced for decades — separated ...

In a boon for racist businesses, the administration has ended a ban on segregated facilities for federal contractors. A segregation-era sign that hung over a water fountain in Montgomery, Alabama.

Understanding the link between law and human psychology is important because that link explains why when you put intergroup tension into the law, those laws have long-lasting effects on interpersonal ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide. Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on an Alabama bus, another civil rights activist, Barbara Pope, ...

In terms of trying to right a wrong, if you will, even though Nat jumped the gun on me there for a second, but Alabama lawmakers are considering pardoning hundreds, even thousands or people who were ...

Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights. A portrait of American civil rights activist ...