There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important ... had something called ‘segregation’. This meant people of different skin colours ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Segregation is illegal in the US. But President Trump's administration is removing anything that benefits people of specific ...

Board of Education ended segregation in public schools, sparking widespread outrage. Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man led to organized protests and ...

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

Unlike Rosa Parks, whose similar refusal nine months ... That court finally declared Alabama’s bus segregation unconstitutional. “Twice Toward Justice” earned Hoose the 2009 National Book ...

To light the candle is to resist. We must resist like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who founded the Congressional Union for ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in the ...