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

Claudette Colvin, whose challenge to Alabama’s segregation laws nine months before Rosa Parks provided a spark for the modern Civil Rights Movement, died on Tuesday. She was 86 years old. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86. Ashley Roseboro, a spokesperson for ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA — The religious freedom laws that several states have passed are just as wrong as laws that allowed racial segregation a century ago if they allow people to discriminate, U.S. Rep. James ...