It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in the ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National ...

Elaine Weiss is author of "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement." She joins the exchange to shed light on a relatively obscure role that a mountaintop folk ...

The initial list had included some of the country’s most recognizable buildings, along with courthouses, offices and even a parking garage, and spanned nearly every state, drawing ... civil rights ...

Also targeted for disposal is the Alabama bus station pivotal to the civil rights movement that now serves as the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery. The Rosa Parks building at 985 Michigan Ave.

The administration also said it was seeking to offload federal buildings bearing the names of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta and Rosa Parks in Detroit, and the Montgomery ...