During the Civil Rights Movement, restaurants were vital for protesters and organizers to gather. Here are some of the most ...

A BHS basketball coach's demand that a player cut his hair and quit a Black student organization in 1970 exposed racial ...

Rosa Parks has been gone for nearly 20 years. Her legacy lives on, and now the City of Detroit wants to ensure her longtime home will live on, as well.

From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants didn't just feed civil rights leaders – they funded, sheltered and fuelled the fight for equality.

After the Montgomery bus boycott, Parks participated in the 1963 March on Washington and went on to serve on the board of Planned Parenthood. She received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. 2.

Montgomery bus station manager Charles H. Cummings had maintained a scrapbook of newspaper articles during the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott. Next to articles describing the arrest of Rosa ...

On Nov. 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Montgomery desegregated its city buses the next day. The boycott lasted 382 days. Photos from the time ...

Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the anniversary of bus boycott with museum tours and free bus rides on Rosa Parks Day. The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville are preparing to honor ...

Monday’s events start with a ribbon-cutting at 9:30 a.m. for the Holt Street Baptist Church Historical Museum, which was the site of the mass meeting that launched the boycott.

When bus #2857 was retired in the early 1970s, Roy H. Summerford of Montgomery bought it. At the time, company employees told him that it was the Rosa Parks bus.

EJI’s Legacy Sites: Equal Justice Initiative has two locations in Montgomery that are available to visit for a single ticket cost of $5 this weekend: The Legacy Museum, 400 N. Court St., and the ...