Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed ...

Nov. 13 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1927, the Holland Tunnel was opened under the Hudson River, linking New York City and New Jersey. In 1947, development of the AK-47 is completed by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rosa Parks, left, makes bond to Circuit Court in December 1955 for violating Montgomery's segregation ordinance for city buses.

Back-of-the-bus seating for women on public transport in Israel will be outlawed soon, its justice minister said on Thursday, pledging sweeping legislation to stop Jewish religious zealots trying to ...

Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger. But she has been... Before Rosa Parks, a teenager defied segregation on ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer whose refusal to obey segregation laws on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for the modern Civil Rights Movement, died at the age of 86 on January 13, ...

Inthe spring of 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old Black teenager, refused to give up her seat for a White woman. Along with classmates, she boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and sat ...

He towered over the packed bus, standing well over 6 feet, with a head full of locks and a purple shirt proudly boasting “Chicagoan” on his chest. “You’re getting an official Mahogany tour because the ...

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent: ...