The Oklahoma charter school case is one of two April cases seeking to remake schools in the religious right’s image.

Plessy, a man who was one-eighth black ... In 1896, after years of trials appeals, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was fair, and was not a violation of the Fourteenth ...

Plessy was found guilty in November of violating the act, and the Citizens Committee appealed. The Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld the decision, and the case eventually moved to the U.S. Supreme ...

Rep. Yvette Clarke during the Congressional Black Caucus' special order hour on House floor blasts Trump and his ...

Contrary to conventional understanding, the Court declines to revisit its notorious 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and instead limits itself to the question whether the separate-but-equal rule ...

For a court to rule in support of this challenge is to establish a precedent as dangerous as the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that propped up Jim Crow for almost 60 years. It’s past time to hang ...

In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of people based on race was legal, providing facilities were 'separate but equal'. These segregation ...

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson was the start of the ... that segregation had a harmful effect on black students. In court, he said segregation created a feeling of inferiority that undermined ...