The 1954 ruling ostensibly did away with the “separate but equal” doctrine, under which Jim Crow laws had been allowed ... of course. Rosa Parks would refuse to move to the back of the bus ...

With the nation clearly polarized by politics, many Black Americans are wondering where are the leaders who can bring the ...

Jim Crow laws enforced strict racial divides ... So we end up going to the end and peeing together. It was our Rosa Parks moment." Related: Michael Jordan on turning $275 million into $3 billion ...

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss' "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights ...

He has nine and ninety ewes, and I have (but) one: Yet he says, ‘commit her to my care,’ and is (moreover) harsh to me […] ...

In 1934, he hired Charles Hamilton Houston and 27-year-old Thurgood Marshall to launch a legal assault on Jim Crow, which Houston ... Eight months later, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.

WILLIAMS: This is part of a really long game, to try to use the law in order to bring down Jim Crow ... in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.

in 1955 after seamstress Rosa Parks, an active member of the local NAACP, refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger and move to the back of the bus. Within days of her arrest for violating ...