Sixty-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of Page 9 of The Montgomery Advertiser: “Negro jailed here for ‘overlooking’ bus segregation.” That day ...
Two Delaware schools played an important role in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools 70 years ago and marked a turning point in America’s civil ...
Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, has died, per theGrio. She was 86. On Tuesday (January 13), the Claudette ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The dust has settled on a troubled, yet heroic memory for Claudette Colvin, who no longer has a criminal record for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman during the ...
In the 1950s, the civil rights movement found its voice in places that routinely discriminated against blacks: schools, lunch counters, public buses and terminals. Travel to civil rights hot spots on ...
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