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 ...

Richard Arrington Jr., Birmingham's first Black mayor, shares his experiences with segregation and offers insights on the ...

Family members and attorneys say the Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists to isolated cells.

Colvin's arrest on a Montgomery bus at age 15, months before Rosa Parks, helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.

As a child visiting segregated Montgomery, Gwen Patton didn't know she couldn't sit in the front of a Montgomery bus.

On April 12, 1963, in Birmingham, Ala., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. held a press conference after being served a ...

The Old Courthouse Museum stands as the crown jewel of Monroeville’s historic district, its distinctive dome creating an ...

Tucked between the winding Coosa River and the gentle slopes of the Appalachian foothills, Gadsden, Alabama stands as a testament to something increasingly endangered in modern America – a place where ...