On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 17, Civil Rights Movement attorney Fred Gray spoke at Auburn University’s annual ...

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 Biscuits’ home to feature a Negro Leagues exhibit in 2026, blendingbaseball history with the city’s civil rights heritage.The post Montgomery’s Ballpark Becomes Gateway to Negro Leagues ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Coretta Scott King died in 2006 at the age of 78 from complications with ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer for women.

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

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 ...

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 ...