Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa Parks, has died at 86 ...

Claudette Colvin, whose challenge to Alabama’s segregation laws nine months before Rosa Parks provided a spark for the modern ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin has passed away at the age of 86, leaving behind a powerful legacy of courage and resistance. Learn more about the life of the trailblazing activist whose ...

Concept of segregation in America illustrated by view of map with two students standing on opposite sides of line. Seventy years after the Supreme Court outlawed separating public school children by ...

Explore how single-family zoning influences housing segregation, limits property diversity, and impacts racial wealth gaps in ...

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 ...

AS the nation debates Trent Lott's comments, it is important to understand what segregation really meant. First and foremost, this was not just a bad attitude but a vast set of laws designed to ...

FILE - A carving depicting Confederate Civil War figures Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, is seen in Stone Mountain, Ga., June 23, 2015. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) STONE ...