Civil Rights

Claudette Colvin has filed a petition to have her record expunged more than 60 years after she was beaten by police and…

ABC will air “Women of the Movement” next season, focusing on the life of Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till. Emmett…

Recy Taylor, a Black woman from Abbeville, Alabama whose rape by six white men in 1944 and her lengthy battle for justice,…

Born July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary Mcleod Bethune was one of 17 children. The entire family picked cotton including…