In a turn of events that illustrates both Black intellectual resistance to inequality and institutional change over time, the history of the Guinier family and of Harvard remain deeply entwined.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture shares these and other stories of the heroes who helped overturn legalized segregation in our effort to advance social justice and racial …

While civil rights eforts have worked to abolish segregation in education and in public spaces from buses to lunch counters to swimming pools, some 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement residential …

Sep 12, 2023 · Eventually, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act made racial segregation and discrimination illegal. The impact of the long history of Jim Crow, however, …

Most research and redress efforts concern the well-documented history of government-enacted and government-abetted segregation against African Americans. This brief draws mainly from that …

On one Christmas Eve, a group of medical students, fed up with segregation at Barnes Hospital, move beds around so that one ward “was like piano keys: Black, white, Black, white,” recalled Gerald …

Segregation refers to the enforced separation of racially designated groups in public places—railroads, buses, schools, parks, cemeteries, etc.—by law and custom, particularly during the Jim Crow Era …

Segregation is the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender. Segregation implies the physical separation of people in everyday activities, in professional life, and …

After the Civil War, millions of formerly enslaved African Americans hoped to join the larger society as full and equal citizens. Although some white Americans welcomed them, others used people’s …

states with a history of segregation by law.16 The period produced a vast change in Southern education, moving it from virtual apartheid in the early 1960s to becoming the nation’s most integrated region by …