Dameion Pickett said someone had a private pontoon boat illegally positioned in the Harriott II’s space as it ended a dinner tour, preventing the riverboat from safely docking. The riverboat worker at the center of the viral brawl at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, nearly two months […]
American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin pictured on April 7, 1998. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty A civil rights icon who had been on probation since 1955 over her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama has […]
(CNN)It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. […]
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