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 ...

What’s the most surefire way to achieve Civil War 2.0 in the United States? According to one wild simulation, it’s exactly what’s happening right now in Minneapolis. In October 2024, researchers at ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known efforts of Rosa Parks by less than a year, has died. She was 86. "It is with ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age of 86, her family and foundation announced Tuesday. "It is with ...

Claudette Colvin, a legendary Alabama figure that fought for civil rights as a teenager, has died at the age of 86. Colvin’s death was announced in a statement from her family and the Claudette Colvin ...