In this Caprock Chronicles series, attorneys Chuck Lanehart and Dwight McDonald explore a shameful part of Lubbock's past - ...

Passage of the Act ended the application of “Jim Crow” laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Court held that racial segregation ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

From massive protests against racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s to the fight against police brutality, African Americans have advocated for equality for decades. In the ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

WIELDING THE WRITTEN WORD: Professor Chakkalakal discusses her new book on the life and writings of author and activist ...

Just as the 14th Amendment was used in the creation of Jim Crow laws, it was used to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson because of one word: equal. Oliver Brown’s daughter had to be bused to a school ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...

The majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) agreed that the law should not impose an intimacy upon individuals by making them sit together, as if that upward mobility had been achieved.

A couple in Seneca sits down with Destiny Chance to discuss prejudice they experienced directly after schools integrated, and how they overcame obstacles to celebrate 50 years in a wedding ceremony ...

In a few ways, Iowa has been more progressive than the rest of the country when it comes to providing equity to Black ...