Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed ...

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

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Claudette Colvin, a pivotal yet long-under-recognized figure in the early civil rights movement whose defiance on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for nationwide ...

Claudette Colvin, widely considered an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, has died at age 86. “To us, she was more than a historical figure. She was the heart of our family, wise, ...

The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient shared his personal mission to dismantle segregation and the lessons his mother instilled in him.

Jefferson County will install a Texas Historical Commission undertold marker honoring Sadie Patillo’s 1932 bus segregation case. Here's more about her story.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose arrest 71 years ago as a teenager for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama helped ignite the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She ...

Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, has died. Colvin’s act preceded the more famous case of Rosa ...

my mindset was on freedom and my mindset was on the hero. The women especially the women soldier on the truth and carry your stuff. So I was not going to move that. More than 60 years after Claudette ...