In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...

ALL THIS MONTH. WVTM 13 PROJECT COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES ALABAMIANS WHO BROKE BARRIERS AND RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERYONE. PEOPLE LIKE ROSA PARKS, BORN IN TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA, ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 1913 AND LATER ...

One man is hurt after an early Sunday morning shooting on Main Street in Lynchburg. MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to ...

Annie Bell Giles participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and knew Martin Luther King Jr. Interview recorded on Aug. 9, 2005.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest daughter has called for a Waffle House boycott following a series of disturbing incidents involving law enforcement and the chain’s black patrons. Dr. Bernice King ...

(A version of this story first appeared on Dec. 12, 2014.) Three years after Martin Luther King Jr. became internationally famous as the spokesman for the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, he came to ...

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making the third Monday in January a federal holiday to remember and celebrate the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Rev. King knew racism and ...