On March 20, 1924, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the nation’s cruelest, most draconian, segregation law. Designed to preserve white racial “purity,” the legislation became a model for states ...

African American men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a "Here Lies Jim Crow" sign down the middle of a street as a demonstration against "Jim Crow" segregation laws.CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images ...

Popularized by U.S. Supreme Court majorities from the 1970s to today, the de facto segregation myth has been adopted by conventional opinion, liberal and conservative alike. Contrary to popular belief ...

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 ...

AS the nation debates Trent Lott's comments, it is important to understand what segregation really meant. First and foremost, this was not just a bad attitude but a vast set of laws designed to ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — In a symbolic step towards unity, Boynton Beach city leaders officially wiped out laws created a century ago, prohibiting residents of the opposite race from entering ...

Concept of segregation in America illustrated by view of map with two students standing on opposite sides of line. Seventy years after the Supreme Court outlawed separating public school children by ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil rights ...

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 ...

Black Judges Discuss Growing Up During Segregation, Efforts to Diversify the Profession “Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie ...