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Homer Plessy
Biography via Yahoo News· 5 months agoHomer PlessyBiography; Getty Images (silhouette, Supreme Court justices), Wikimedia Commons (railroad), National Archives and Records Administration...
A History Of The Invisible Mississippi Delta Chinese Community
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe story of the Jim Crow era, as popularly told in our media and classrooms, is predominantly told...
Opinion | What Alito Should Have Written
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHere’s what I wish Alito had written: In 1890, Louisiana passed a law that required “all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches [to]...
Sunday's letters: Readers react to Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade
Herald-Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe facts: What does abortion ruling mean? With all the hysteria and lack of knowledge surrounding...
Separate water fountains for Black people still stand in the South – thinly veiled monuments to the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn this 1938 image, a Black boy uses a fountain marked 'colored' at a North Carolina county...
Mary Church Terrell: Black history icon and early architect of the civil rights movement
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMary Church Terrell was a reserved, yet outspoken activist who laid the foundation for the civil...
Against all odds, this Black NJ lawyer helped ignite the civil rights movement | Stile
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOliver Randolph, the lone Black delegate to the New Jersey Constitutional Convention, had reason to...
Supreme Court Declares Affirmative Action In Education Unconstitutional
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Supreme Court declared affirmative action programs at public and private colleges and...
Supreme Court affirmative action cases spark heated debate over meaning of Brown v. Board
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWASHINGTON – Virtually any high school student in America, if asked to name a Supreme Court...
The Supreme Court's new "separate but equal" doctrine
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSCOTUS; Clarence Thomas; Thurgood MarshallPhoto illustration by Salon/Getty Images Last week, the...
