Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who challenged segregation as a teenager, is pictured years after her historic arrest that preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Anderson, a lifelong educator, ...
In 1956, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in a case that successfully challenged Montgomery’s segregated bus seating as ...
Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86 on Jan. 13, her family announced. Though her name is less widely known than Parks’, ...
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 ...
Colvin's arrest on a Montgomery bus at age 15, months before Rosa Parks, helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a star witness in a civil rights case.
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