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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...