The unsung Civil Rights icon was arrested at 15 years old for violating bus segregation ordinances in Alabama in 1955.

In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...

A statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in downtown Montgomery, seen on January 24, 2023. The statue stands in the approximate location where Parks boarded a segregated city bus on December 1, ...

Rosa Parks' powerful quote, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," transcends physical exhaustion to represent a ...

Sixty-five years ago today, a Black woman from Tuskegee, Alabama changed the course of American history. Rosa Parks, then 42, was arrested on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama on Dec. 1, 1955, when ...

The University of Michigan has selected its next president. Kent Syverud, the current chancellor of Syracuse University, will be officially appointed as Michigan’s 16th president. Read full article: ...

A teacher who told year six children that Rosa Parks "did not exist" and that Martin Luther King was guilty of plagiarism has ...

Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin made history. As the civil rights pioneer has died at 86, we revisit the courage, ...