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

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

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, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, is dead ...

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

As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to move after a bus driver complained that she was sitting near two white girls in violation ...

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

When the government entity that manages federal buildings ordered agencies to drop a long-standing clause from new contracts, it prompted some concern that the Trump administration was trying to ...

Long-standing federal guidelines prevented federal contractors from operating segregated facilities, like restaurants or waiting rooms. A newly unearthed memo from the Trump administration calls to ...

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 ...

A newly unearthed memo from the Trump administration calls to mind the infamous words of the late segregationist and Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who said at his inauguration in 1963, “I draw the line ...