Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rosa Parks, left, makes bond to Circuit Court in December 1955 for violating Montgomery's segregation ordinance for city buses.

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...

STOW, Ohio (WOIO) - Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools has launched a full investigation after a student says they were separated by their race on the school bus. The student’s mother tells 19 News she is ...

STOW, Ohio (WOIO) - Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools officials have finished their investigation after a student said they were separated by race on a school bus. School officials told 19 News they ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Most people know the story of Rosa Parks - but are you familiar with the name Irene Morgan? In July 1944, 27-year-old Morgan left her mother's home in Gloucester, Virginia bound for ...

Claudette Colvin, photographed here in 1998, helped end segregation on public transportation. Dudley M. Brooks / The Washington Post via Getty Images Claudette Colvin, widely considered an unsung hero ...

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent: ...