When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil ...

The 19th of January marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans ...

“I think they [the NAACP] were looking for the right person,” Colvin explained why her actions did not spark the boycott, in 2015, “the face of the total movement.” ...

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 ...

To mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, "Sunday Morning" talks with some of those who were engaged from the very beginning ...

History had me glued to the seat,” she said, reflecting on her arrest as a 15-year-old after refusing to yield her bus seat ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, has ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- It's a story worth telling -- the power of non-violent protests and the history of segregation in the city of Houston. Reverend Bill Lawson first opposed the sit-ins but went on to ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...

Music was the heartbeat of the Civil Rights era. It provided a powerful voice for change by transforming spirituals and folk ...

Nearly 60 years after King’s death, civil rights leaders say Trump is forcing the movement to reinvent itself again as ...

Sarah Rountree is the last surviving member of the Committee for Civil Liberties.