Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

The legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Gray has practiced law for nearly a century, winning landmark cases during the Civil Rights Movement under the representation ...

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice.

Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in ...

Take Claudette Colvin, who, at the age of 15, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, months ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...

Additionally, the city will dedicate a bronze plaque honoring the subject of Aimee’s winning essay, Claudette Colvin. Nine months before Rosa Parks's famous act of civil disobedience ...