Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights.

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 ...

The General Services Administration lifted a requirement for the prohibition of segregated facilities in government contracts.

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 ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide. Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on an Alabama bus, another civil rights activist, Barbara Pope, ...

In her groundbreaking new book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs, Dr. Crystal R. Sanders uncovers a little-known chapter of ...

REDEFINE WHAT CONSTITUTES DISCRIMINATION. WE FIND OURSELVES VOTING ON A BILL THAT AIMS TO SEGREGATE, DEHUMANIZE AND TO INCITE DISCRIMINATION AND POTENTIAL VIOLENCE AGAINST A SPECIFIC POPULATION.

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 ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus at age 15—months before Rosa Parks—has died at 86. Though her arrest did not immediately spark a boycott, her courage ...