Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of ...

The boycott’s ultimate success came through the courts. In November 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to strike down segregation on public buses, and Browder v. Gayle became ...

Don’t get mad — get smart,” Andrew Young’s father, Andrew Sr., once told him, growing up in New Orleans in the midst of racial tensions. Young would learn not to flare up in anger amid the ...

This article is part of She Resisted, an interactive experience celebrating the pioneering strategies of the women’s suffrage movement. Black women formed clubs to support their communities as early ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for ...

TALLAHASSEE — Sixty years later, it seems impossible to believe there was a time when blacks and whites were not allowed to sit together on Tallahassee city buses. It seems impossible to believe ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott. A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

When visitors enter the home of Jewish American peace activist Jeff Steinberg, they step into a living tribute to civil rights history. His house is adorned with art and memorabilia from the civil ...

Bristol civil rights leader Paul Stephenson, who helped lead the Bristol Bus Boycott and challenged the racist policies of businesses and authorities in the city for decades, has been described as ...