Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known efforts ...

More than 70 years ago, a Black teenager pushed against racial boundary lines in Montgomery, Alabama. She had learned about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth at her segregated high school, and the ...

On a March day in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Under Jim Crow ...

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 ...

Colvin was 15 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus on March 2, 1955 Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died The 86-year-old died of natural causes, spokesman ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known efforts of Rosa Parks by less than a year, has died. She was 86. "It is with ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, at just 15 years old, has died. She was 86. “It is with profound sadness that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus months before Rosa Parks did the ...