When Lexie Webster integrated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 1963, fences went up. She spent her 96 years breaking down ...

Editor: Every so often someone writes this paper proclaiming how Republicans have always championed civil rights and true equality while the mean old Democrats have been against minorities from the ...

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

As fireworks light up the night sky, let us remember that the truth is also a source of light. America's promise remains ...

Jim Obergefell never planned to sue the state of Ohio, but his love for his husband drove him to become a pioneer for LGBTQ+ ...

Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

If a conductor failed to enforce the law, they could be fined $50 to $500. Click here to view a history of Oklahoma’s Jim Crow laws.

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United States. The term was used in Australia too.

Jim Crow laws were enacted over several decades after the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction in the late 19th century and formally ended with passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting ...

Jim Crow laws were enacted over several decades after the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction in the late 19th century and formally ended with passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting ...

The hosts of "The View" criticized Florida Republican Representative Byron Donalds for appearing to suggest that life was better for Black people under Jim Crow segregation laws. "You see, during ...

Because of Jim Crow, the Black codes created after emancipation were now the law of the land. Segregated schools were mandatory under Jim Crow.