This famous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case established the doctrine of "separate but equal"…otherwise known as the biggest oxymoron since True Lies.The petitioner in the case was challenging a Loui...

The 1955 Supreme Court case reversed Plessy v. Fergusson. In the new ruling, the Court struck down the idea of "separate but equal" schools, which: great—it only took them forty-nine years to fig...

Racist laws and practices known as "Jim Crow" laws dominated southern politics in the mid-twentieth century. The term Jim Crow comes from characters in "minstrel shows," theatrical performances tha...

Alabama governor George Wallace is famous for a quote from his inaugural address: "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." And that, folks, is just the tip of the racist, racis...

Anybody can make a difference, and it can be as simple as saying, "No." In 1955, Rosa Parks was riding a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The normal practice on buses was to make African Americans sit i...

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s wife kept his legacy alive after his assassination in 1968. A prolific journalist and author, she advocated a number of causes, continuing her husband's philosophy of non-...

During the Civil Rights Movement, it was raining men. The so-called "Big Six" leaders who organized the March on Washington were all guys. It was pretty much a screening of Monday Night Football in...

Obama, the first African American president of the United States, has been compared to Martin Luther King, Jr. for his public speaking abilities. Some people see his presidency as evidence of the f...