As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- It's one of the most painful periods of America's history. It was just over 70 years ago, on May 17th, 1954, The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling that would change ...

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 ...

Oliver Brown, an African American welder and assistant pastor, brings a case against the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his 9-year-old daughter, Linda Brown, to attend Sumner Elementary ...

A Humanities Kansas grant will fund new research on the Madam C.J. Walker School in Merriam. The old school, which was the center of a desegregation lawsuit in the 1940s, now houses the Philadelphia ...

Delaware leaders gathered to celebrate Hockessin Colored School's contributions to school integration. Former student James "Sonny" Knott was among other former students at the event. Gov. Meyer, Sen.