MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, new photos of the Civil Rights Movement ...

Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MONTGOMERY, AL - OCTOBER 26: Civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, and Claudette Colvin, 82, listen during a press conference ...

Thirty-five students from four high schools in Atlanta spent the last three days traveling through Alabama as part of the annual John Lewis Student Civil Rights Pilgrimage.

The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the ...

The annual wreath-laying ceremony in Montgomery honored Civil Rights martyrs and the late John Lewis 61 years after Bloody ...

It watched them march to the Alabama State Capitol building, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and now ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...

A trip to Montgomery’s Civil Rights Trail is a trip that sits with you long after you’ve unpacked your suitcase. One that shifts something in you. Montgomery, Alabama, is one of those places, ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age of 86, her family and foundation announced Tuesday. "It is with ...

History lessons tend to define Parks by her act of civil disobedience a decade earlier, on Dec. 1, 1955, which launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On Friday, some boycott participants and many of the ...