Regan Prater set fire to the main offices of the Highlander Research and Education Center and took credit for it in encrypted ...

Two majority Black cities in Alabama now have Black representation in Congress because of court-ordered redistricting. The ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. Born in 1913 in ...

Gray represented prominent civil rights leaders like King, Rosa Parks and John ... she refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus, months before Parks earned worldwide appreciation ...

Rosa Parks accomplished nothing by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus. But her symbolic act of defiance motivated thousands to join the civil rights cause. Democratic leaders ...

On December 1, 1955, she was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger — triggering the Montgomery bus boycott. But the Rosa Parks mugshot was not taken that day. In fact ...