Civil Rights

Colvin was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955, months before Rosa Parks did the same.
The decision follows a 22-month investigation into errors in the 1965 case.
The teen cried while recounting the protests last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he shot three people.
The Raleigh Police Department fired Omar Abdullah after the city paid $2 million to settle a wrongful arrest suit from several of the men.
Family members and survivors of the 2015 massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof sued the FBI after its background check failed to stop Roof from buying the gun he used.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced an investigation into whether the Arizona city and its police department have violated civil rights laws.
Rev. William Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign is leading a 27-mile, multiday march against voter suppression, urging Congress to take action on voting rights.
Moses was central to the 1964 “Freedom Summer” in which hundreds of students went to the South to register voters.
Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he wants the state legislature to include the issue in its July 8 special session, despite the bill already failing to pass.
The civil rights activists say the two senators are "threatening our democracy."