Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer whose refusal to obey segregation laws on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for the modern Civil Rights Movement, died at the age of 86 on January 13, ...

Claudette Colvin speaks alongside civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, during a press conference at the Montgomery County Family Court on October 26, 2021, in Montgomery, Alabama, after petitioning ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern Civil Rights Movement, has died. She was 86.File video above: Who was ...

In a boon for racist businesses, the administration has ended a ban on segregated facilities for federal contractors. A segregation-era sign that hung over a water fountain in Montgomery, Alabama.

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known efforts of Rosa Parks by less than a year, has died. She was 86. "It is with ...

On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...

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 ...

Birmingham Museum of Art seeking missing segregation-era works of first Black artist ...

The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans also alleges in earlier court documents that the board’s decision to relocate Confederate flags from a walking trail violates Georgia law. The ...

A newly unearthed memo from the Trump administration calls to mind the infamous words of the late segregationist and Alabama ...