From the Sweet trials of the 1920s to white flight and Malice Green, the city of Detroit has frequently found itself at the forefront in discussions of race relations in America. Though landmark ...
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 ...