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 …