Montgomery bus boycott

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.

A new documentary explores the origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — with lessons on how we see movements.

Colvin, 82, is headed to court in Montgomery, Ala., to petition for her record to be cleared.

Claudette Colvin is a Civil Rights hero you've probably never heard of. In 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, months before Rosa Parks.

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.

Rosa Parks discusses her refusal to give up a seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.

“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”

Why women civil rights organizers marginalized at this event, and how that affects our collective memory of the struggle.

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fates of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.

A woman who repeatedly challenged racial violence and the prejudiced systems protecting its perpetrators.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?

Organizing is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength.

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

Police K-9 units in the United States emerged during the Civil Rights era. This was not a coincidence.

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.

The Northern Student Movement considered inviting Rosa Parks to give a speech on police brutality, but ultimately decided against it.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.