MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 22, 1956 (INS) - Only one case of physical violence and a few muttered threats marked the end of enforced racial segregation on the buses in Montgomery. Negroes ended their ...

In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly ...

He was 82. In 1961, 18-year-old Person joined a group of 12 other Civil Rights activists, both Black and white, to travel by ...

The letter was sent after the bus line’s segregation gained notoriety in recent days following an article in The New York World, a Columbia Journalism School publication. The New York Times ...

For Mr. Person, the campaign was an illustration of the power of nonviolence and collective action. It was also a deeply ...

The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored ...

The bus lines are one of the more visible examples of the growing segregation of men and women in the haredi Orthodox world, part of the larger, long-running battle in haredi society to keep ...