Kredelle Petway, daughter of civil rights advocate Reverend Matthew Petway, played a courageous role in the fight against Jim ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Freedom Riders who were attacked in Alabama's capital city on May 20, 1961, returned 50 years later to be hailed as heroes and have a museum dedicated at the old bus station where ...

Statue of Rev. C.K. Steele’s resolute gaze over the C.K. Steele bus plaza. (Khalil-Lullah Ballentine/FAMUAN) The solemn ...

Dr. Norman Francis, former HBCU president and influential leader in education and banking, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, at age 94 on February 18, 2026.

Norman C. Francis was one of the most influential New Orleanians of the past century. These five moments and memories help ...

Black History Month began a century ago, in 1926. Historian Carter Woodson started the observance as a week-long event each ...

The University also objected to “affirmative action and women.” ...

If Montgomery has one thing, its tangible history. This Black History Month, archivists urge the public to engage with ...

In 1961, when Hezekiah Watkins was 13, he was arrested and placed on death row after entering the “whites only” section of a bus station in Jackson, Mississippi.

When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a strategy that reshaped the civil rights movement.

Stanley Nelson’s Emmy Award winning documentary recounts the organization, intentions and lasting influence of mostly young college students who challenged segregation in the Deep South in 1961.