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 ...

Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama.

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 ...

In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that held racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality. Justice Henry ...

A landmark court case involving an Orange County family and local school districts that helped bring about the end of segregation laws in schools around the country will be a mandatory element 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 ...