Desegregation

It was on May 20, 1961 when a group of civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders arrived by bus in Montgomery. An angry white mob was waiting for them at the Greyhound Bus Station in Alabama’s Capitol city. The attackers used baseball bats and iron pipes to beat the Freedom Riders, which included future Georgia Congressman John Lewis. The Montgomery attack followed similar violence in Birmingham and Anniston earlier in the month.

Officials say a high school in west Alabama is shrinking, and it currently needs $200,000 to keep some administrative jobs that federal funding pays…

A federal appeals court says a mostly white Alabama city won’t be allowed to break away from a mostly black county school system in order to form its own…

Officials in Gardendale, Alabama may be allowed to establish their own school system, but it won’t be this fall.U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala is…

Plaintiffs in a more than half-century old desegregation case are asking a federal judge to keep Gardendale, Alabama from establishing its own school…

The Alabama Senate is headed to a budget vote as they wrap up a session marred by frustrations and disagreements over a hole-filled general fund.Senators…