After Brown v. Board struck down school segregation in 1954, Southern leaders fought back with laws, intimidation, school ...

After Brown v. Board, White Citizens’ Councils spread across the South, using economic coercion to block desegregation.

Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on the steps of the Supreme Court. Nettie explains to her daughter the meaning of the high court's ruling in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case that ...

In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a "Whites-only" railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest ...

The nominee clarified that she believes school segregation by race is immoral. A back-and-forth between one of President Donald Trump’s federal judicial nominees and a Democratic senator is picking up ...