Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice. "I'm a ...

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...

The juvenile record of Claudette Colvin was expunged 66 years after her arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus, PEOPLE confirms. The civil rights pioneer ...

A community gathering was held yesterday [March 3] to mark the stand taken by Claudette Colvin in Alabama in 1955. A ...

3. Rosa Parks wasn’t the first—or only—person arrested for disrupting bus segregation. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on the ...

At 15 years old, Claudette Colvin refused to give her seat up to a white woman on a crowded segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

The actions of a teenager who refused to leave a bus seat in a segregated United States will be celebrated with presentations and music on Monday. Members of the public have been invited to the ...

Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks refusing to give up their seats on buses when white people demanded them, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott and the banning of segregated buses in Alabama.

Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice. "I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said.