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History & Hope: Author shares story of family's role in Montgomery bus boycotts Share Updated: 8:05 AM PST Mar 4, 2021 By Brie Jackson Share Updated: 8:05 AM PST Mar 4, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript My father and my uncle were leaders of that protest, and it was a protest that really kick started. The civil rights movement was the first direct mass action protest. My dad was a boycott organizer, my dad, the late Judge Thomas Gray and his younger brother, youngest brother Fred Gray, who is a renowned civil rights lawyer. He represented Rosa Parks and M...

Life in the 1950s in Britain was a world away from the country we live in today. In today’s gallery we take you on a trip back in time to a period that will be well-recalled by some and a relative mystery to others. As Britain looked to emerge from the fallout from the Second World War post-1945, it was a country facing great social and cultural change. In 1951, the Festival of Britain was held in a bid to foster a national spirit of recovery. Of course, the country was still suffering the impacts of those years spent at war and, indeed, rationing would still go on until 1954.

At just 15-years-old, Claudette Colvin ignited the Alabama bus boycott flame, years before Rosa Parks would refuse to give up her seat.

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bessemer, prisons – Class struggle then and now By Monica Moorehead posted on February 16, 2021 Fifty years after the end of the U.S. Civil War — and during the height of horrific lynchings of Black people in the Deep South by KKK terror — the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter Woodson and Rev. Jesse E. Moorland to research and promote the individual contributions of people of African descent, both inside the U.S. and throughout the African diaspora.  The ASNLH launched a national “Negro History Week” in F...

At just 15-years-old, Claudette Colvin ignited the Alabama bus boycott flame, years before Rosa Parks would refuse to give up her seat.