No one knows for certain when public facilities like bathrooms and drinking fountains were separated by race. But starting in ...

When on the railway car he identified himself as black (his light complexion made his race "not discernible", he said), he was arrested, just as the Citizens Committee had planned. Plessy was ...

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 discourse around a colorblind U.S. has been going on since 1896, when the term "colorblind" was first used in the ...

When Homer Plessy boarded a ‘Whites Only’ train carriage in New Orleans in 1892, he knew he would be arrested – in fact, that was his plan. He was mixed race, and a member of a civil rights ...

In each of the cases, minors of the Negro race, through their legal representatives ... but equal" doctrine announced by this court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537. Under that doctrine ...

Transgender Iowans will lose state-level legal protections from discrimination if Gov. Kim Reynolds signs into law legislation approved Thursday by Republican lawmakers.