Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa Parks, has died at 86 ...

Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation at 15 before Rosa Parks, has died at 86. Discover how her legacy shaped civil ...

Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

Colvin challenged the discriminatory seating practice when she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a ...

History had me glued to the seat,” she said, reflecting on her arrest as a 15-year-old after refusing to yield her bus seat ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus helped spark the legal challenge that ended ...

Nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance, a 15-year-old Black girl named Claudette Colvin had already ...

Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, is dead ...

As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to move after a bus driver complained that she was sitting near two white girls in violation ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern ...

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in ...