Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat before Rosa. Parks but respectability politics, colorism relegated her to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age ...

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, ...

In 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. She was not the first. Months earlier, a Black teenager, Claudette Colvin, was arrested for not offering her ...

Claudette Colvin, who helped end racial segregation in the US by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, has died. She was 86 years old. Colvin's protest, which led to her arrest, came in ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age of 86, her family and foundation announced Tuesday. "It is with ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age of 86, her family and foundation announced Tuesday. “It is with ...