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.

Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her dedication to non-violent civil rights change is continuing to be honored.

ABC 33/40 is taking time to honor the achievements and legacies of African Americans for Black History Month.Each day we will ...

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Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on ... Black newspapers printed headlines that read “Virginia Jim Crow Law Smashed,” but Pope was personally devastated.

These include the rayon frock Rosa Parks was sewing when she was ... As resistance mounted to Jim Crow laws and segregation in the 1960s, Black history became a critical part of the curricula ...

"Let's use today to remember that even in the midst of Jim Crow, Civil Rights Leaders pushed ... AME Church where Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks are laid to rest. Sharpton, founder and ...

No other president, Republican or Democrat, has ever used a Black History Month proclamation for such crass self-promotion.” ...

“To understand and appreciate Liberia is to appreciate something that may have been created because of Jim Crow segregation, ...