The singer-turned-spy is just one of many 20th-century artists who fled American racism and escaped to Europe.

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a ...

Rev. Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Al, he and Martin Luther King, Jr.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, issued a statement Wednesday after the U.S. General Services Administration confirmed that the historic Montgomery Bus Station, home to the Freedom Riders ...

Two icons of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, the Montgomery Bus Station and the Freedom Rides Museum, had been on the federal government's list of buildings for sale. That's no longer the case.