Stroll along North Fourth Avenue and you’ll find yourself popping into restaurants, bars, gift shops and art galleries. The avenue’s business district, which runs roughly from East Ninth Street to ...

On May 20, 1961, Jim Zwerg and 21 others boarded a Greyhound bus in Birmingham, Ala., bound for Montgomery, and ultimately, New Orleans. Some on the bus were white, like Zwerg. Most were black. All ...