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 ...

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 ...

Boynton Beach city commissioners this week repealed a slate of century-old Jim Crow-era laws still on the books that were designed to keep Black residents segregated. Two ordinances, adopted by the ...

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 ...

Almost sixty years ago, the United States of America became a representative democracy. Until 1965, if you count African Americans, this nation was a democracy for some, but not others. The Voting ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

Keep in mind that American laws of racial segregation, were not just about who could go to school with whom. American apartheid also prohibited “race-mixing” in every possible dimension of social life ...

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 ...

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 ...