Mike Marshall, a former reporter for The Huntsville Times, spent 24 years trying to solve the forgotten Civil Rights Era murder of William Moore. In his recent book No Place for Pilgrims Marshall ...
They didn’t think I’d finish my walk alive," Moore wrote in his diary. "They didn’t think people believed I really stood for the things I do.” ...
The goal of the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board is to bring justice and closure to families who lost loved ones in racially-motivated killings that have gone unsolved.
Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King was assassinated in 1968.
Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary activity.
If Montgomery has one thing, its tangible history. This Black History Month, archivists urge the public to engage with ...
Many of the names are familiar. Johnnie Carr, Claudette Colvin, E.D. Nixon. They’re sprinkled through Alabama history, legal history, Black history and American history for their roles in the ...
More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...
Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's segregation rules from the mid-1950s when she was just a teenager. Colvin ...