I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.

In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a ...

An effort in Congress to honor Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks could make Dec. 1 a new federal holiday. Members of the ...

There's a new effort to create a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell held a news conference ...

David Rickman — a freelance historian, author and illustrator — will be delivering a lecture, “What was Worn in Mexican ...

The event was seen as a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement, as protests followed the killers' acquittal in court. At about the same time, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was ...