While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice. "I'm a ...

After a career in city government spanning 35 years and five mayoral administrations, Rosa Escareño, general superintendent ... “As a kid who grew up in the parks, I could have never dreamed I would ...

When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...

Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation in public schools. Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the hearing was postponed due to concerns that it ...

"We're actively working to update labels for parks in Canada to avoid confusion," a spokesperson told CBC News in an email. Though the state park classification predates the current political ...

Google Maps users have noticed and started documenting the way parks are being labeled in B.C. and Canada. Screenshots provided to Global News show B.C. provincial parks are identified as “state ...

That’s my passion and it breaks my heart to think about what's going to happen to the parks.” Some of these problems are already hitting the parks, but they are expected to worsen during this ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The 63 Congress-designated national parks have been touted as "America's best idea" — and with their mile-deep canyons, 3,000-year-old trees ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very ... including discussions on the use of nonviolent resistance to oppose segregation. Parks was not an “accidental activist ...

This is the first in a series of columns looking at how segregation shaped two of Houston's most notable neighborhoods, reflecting how the city grew from its beginnings in the 1800s and how race ...