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41 days ago

Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear

“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carl…

44 days ago

Claudette Colvin's foundation announced on Tuesday that the civil rights icon, whose story flew under the radar for decades, had died.

45 days ago

Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up he…

Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.

53 days ago

Patrick Lawler, 62, told one Year 6 class how civil rights activist Martin Luther King was a 'fraud' and that Rosa Parks did not really exist.

82 days ago

The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required repeated action and tremendous sacrifice, without any certainty it would work

The Montgomery bus boycott, which began 70 year…

90 days ago

Rosa Park’s story is about courage. But, lest one forget, it is also a story about breaking the law

It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery…

9 months ago

Lisa's eyebrow-raising Met Gala outfit has been explained after she was accused of having a portrait of Rosa Parks on her lace underwear at the fashion event.

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