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.(AP) — 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 ...

The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient shared his personal mission to dismantle segregation and the lessons his mother instilled in him.

Montgomery, Alabama, is marking the 67th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott with a series of celebrations and events. Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested Dec. 1, 1955, after ...

TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM.AT AGE 15, CLAUDETTE COLVIN REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A SEGREGATED BUS IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, AND WAS ARRESTED ON ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

NAACP Reading Branch President Wynton Butler will deliver a talk on the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Wyomissing Public Library, 9 Reading Blvd. Butler’s talk will focus on two ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. The women ...

We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to her and to everyone who led or participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, writes SJ Morrison.