In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...

There were dozens of other events in Montgomery this past week commemorating the bus boycotts, several of them focused on how the city's young people viewed the history and future of civil rights. NPR ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

LANSING — Civil rights icon Rosa Parks’ legacy was on display in downtown Lansing on Feb. 4, as the Capital Area Transportation Authority showcased its Rosa Parks Tribute Bus in front of the state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, 7th April 1998. On March 2, 1955, at the age of fifteen, Colvin was arrested for ...

History often remembers movements by their most recognizable moments. It less often remembers the teenagers who moved first. Family and friends mourn the loss of Claudette Colvin, who is famous for ...

Many of the names are familiar. Johnnie Carr, Claudette Colvin, E.D. Nixon. They’re sprinkled through Alabama history, legal history, Black history and American history for their roles in the ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful conclusion a ...

Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin made history. As the civil rights pioneer has died at 86, we revisit the courage, complexity, and cost of her resistance and why her story was sidelined for so long ...

THE TURNSTILES ARE OPEN AND THE TICKET MACHINES ARE EMPTY. THAT’S BECAUSE ON THIS DAY, EVERYONE RIDES FOR FREE. BECAUSE OF ROSA PARKS STOOD UP AND GOT US, YOU KNOW, CIVIL RIGHTS AND SHE REFUSED TO ...

The Equal Justice Initiative is launching a new project to document the lived experience of the "Montgomery Decade That ...