“Six years ago today, I married my soulmate,” Gilbert wrote in her Instagram tribute to Busfield. “I have never been more ...
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...
"I was a little frustrated because Laura and I didn't, at the time, have that much to do together. But these last scenes were ...
WASHINGTON -- Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped ...
Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...
In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death ...