Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights.

On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights attorney Fred Gray (left) and Claudette Colvin listen during a press conference in Montgomery, Alabama, in October ...

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, has ...

Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86. Ashley Roseboro, a spokesperson for ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died, AP reported. She was 86 ...