Whatever the term, historians largely agree: The United States was born out of protest 250 years ago and has been propelled ...

Claudette Colvin died at 86, remembered for her 1955 stand against bus segregation in Montgomery months before Rosa Parks’ ...

On Feb. 3, 1964, 464,000 New York City school children — almost half of the city’s student body — skipped school as part of a protest against segregation within their school system. Though segregation ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles commemorating the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. These articles were prepared by recent Loudoun County Public Schools ...

Colvin challenged the discriminatory seating practice when she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a ...