A seat that changed America: Honoring Rosa Parks and the moment that shifted a nation.
Read full article: A seat that changed America: Honoring Rosa Parks and the moment that shifted a nation.70 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, communities across the country revisit the moment and the symbol that helped reshape America.
Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray honored with statue in Alabama
Read full article: Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray honored with statue in AlabamaThe legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association.
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Bid considered to wipe Alabama arrest records of King, Parks
Read full article: Bid considered to wipe Alabama arrest records of King, ParksThe quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.
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Civil rights pioneer seeks expungement of '55 arrest record
Read full article: Civil rights pioneer seeks expungement of '55 arrest recordAn 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all.
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