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 ...

Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of 95, was a Methodist minister and a powerful advocate of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement. Lawson is best known for ...

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

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 ...

In 1956, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in a case that successfully challenged Montgomery’s segregated bus seating as ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.