Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation ...

When the Louisiana legislature in 1890 passed the Separate Car Act, which mandated the racial segregation of railroad passengers, a group of black activists set out to challenge the law.

During Reconstruction, the federal government expanded the vote to blacks in the South, and provided some equal protection to black citizens. As Reconstruction failed, however, white supremacists ...

Black Louisianians’ yearslong battle for equal voting representation makes its third appearance at the Supreme Court next ...

It’s a rare time when we’re going to be rooting against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, whom we’re fans of, but today ...

Homer Plessy, who boarded a “whites-only” train car in 1892 as a civil rights demonstration and whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” ruling, has been recommended for ...