For decades during Jim Crow, thousands of Black interstate bus passengers traveling from the North to the segregated South ...
Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...
Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her ...
Several white men boarded and sat among the Black riders, who, against custom in the Jim Crow South, were seated throughout the bus instead of in the back. The next stop was Anniston, a small town ...
The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century ...
After Ku Klux Klan members boarded a bus and attacked ... organising a “freedom ride” to challenge the segregationist Jim Crow laws of the southern states. In 1946, and again in 1960, the ...
In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a commemorative site honors their efforts to fight back against Jim Crow laws.
her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her dedication to non-violent civil rights change is continuing to be honored. The city of Atlanta hosted her historic bus on Friday, the day before the ...