The Wayne Stater

Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin

Zaynab Kouatli, Staff Writer • February 10, 2021

Many are familiar with the story of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in 1955. However, few are aware that there were numerous women who rejected the racist bus system. Fifteen-year-old...

‘Far from over’

Amanda Krehbiel, Assistant Online Editor • March 4, 2015

In 1984, Jesse Jackson, an African American, ran for President of the United States. In 2008, Barack Obama finished what Jackson started. UNL alumnus Preston Love, Jr. called these two men the “bookends...