This summer, the University of Washington Athletics Department had the powerful opportunity to travel to Selma and Montgomery ...

Montgomery, Ala., is known as "the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement," dating to the 1955 boycott of the city bus system sparked by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat. The Alabama capital's ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — At a polling place not far from the intersection of avenues named for Jefferson Davis and Rosa Parks, Laura Minor spent a scorching afternoon on a folding chair with a David Woods ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A Montgomery-based Civil Rights Era newspaper has received a historical marker honoring its coverage of historical events. Ellen Lake wrote for Harvard University’s newspaper ...

A new Negro Leagues Baseball Museum display is set to open in 2026 at Montgomery’s Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Biscuits minor-league club.

The Southern Courier dared to report on civil rights news in ways other publications would not. The Southern Courier, a Montgomery newspaper launched during the Civil Rights Movement, will receive a ...

Montgomery, Alabama–long revered as the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement–is poised to welcome a new cultural landmark at its downtown ballpark. Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Montgomery ...

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington native whose sit-ins with the Greensboro Four helped spark the Civil Rights Movement of ...

On March 25, 2015, around 3,000 marchers participated in a commemorative march starting at Montgomery's City of St. Jude and ending at the Capitol Building in Downtown Montgomery, Ala., reenacting the ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil rights ...

Darryl Littleton, Gabrelle Simmons and Hal Nash of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles listen to people’s testimony during a hearing on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Civil rights groups said they have ...