The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws campaigning ... Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for ...

a conscious choice and an act of rebellion against Jim Crow laws in the South and racial discrimination at large. In her 1992 autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story, she wrote: “I was not tired ...

Today is the 62nd anniversary of when Rosa Parks refused to give ... Rights Movement" in the 1950s, Parks fought against segregation and the Jim Crow Laws of the time. Take a look at her history ...

In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a commemorative site honors their efforts to fight back against Jim Crow laws.