Alabama State strips name of Klan member from dorm, renames it for boycott leader
Alabama State University removed the name of a KKK member from a dorm and renamed it for a leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Alabama State University removed the name of a KKK member from a dorm and renamed it for a leader in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Montgomery’s first Black mayor wants the street named for a local civil rights leader.
The Alabama attorney general's office says Montgomery owes a $25,000 fine for changing the name of a street commemorating Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
The name of confederate president Jeff Davis came down from a street in the capital city and was replaced by the name of civil rights attorney, Fred D. Gray.
Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court system is overdue.