montgomery bus boycott

Judge Expunges Juvenile Record Of Claudette Colvin Who Refused To Give Up Her Seat Months Before Rosa Parks

She became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested at age 15 for violating Alabama’s bus segregation law.
12/17/2021

Alabama City Faces $25,000 Fine For Renaming Street That Honored Confederate President Jefferson Davis

Montgomery’s first Black mayor wants the street named for a local civil rights leader.
12/01/2021

Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin Asks Court To Expunge Her 1955 Arrest

She refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks ignited the civil rights movement.
10/27/2021

This Day in Black History: Dec. 5, 1955

The Montgomery Bus boycott began.
12/05/2020

This Day In Black History: Dec. 1, 1955

Rosa Parks is arrested.
12/01/2020

Obama on Montgomery Bus Boycott Anniversary: 'Rosa Parks Changed America'

POTUS honors the mother of the civil rights movement.
12/01/2015

60 Years Later: From Rosa Parks to Black Lives Matter

Keith Boykin compares past and present movements.
12/01/2015

Commentary: For Jet Magazine, An End of An Era

The publication goes from print to digital-only.
06/17/2014