Colvin’s act helped lead to the 1956 Supreme Court case that ultimately desegregated the Montgomery buses. Claudette Colvin, ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, has ...

Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ...

“I think they [the NAACP] were looking for the right person,” Colvin explained why her actions did not spark the boycott, in ...

Do you know about Claudette Colvin, the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat nine months before Parks did?

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHSV) - Exactly 70 years ago on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was taken to jail for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, in violation of Montgomery, Alabama’s ...

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

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. The original mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

ALL THIS MONTH. WVTM 13 PROJECT COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES ALABAMIANS WHO BROKE BARRIERS AND RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERYONE. PEOPLE LIKE ROSA PARKS, BORN IN TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA, ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 1913 AND LATER ...

Seventy years ago, a great mass movement was set in motion by a solitary sedentary act. It was unplanned yet defiant in purpose. Over the next decade and beyond, hundreds of thousands of people ...

Colvin, at age 15, was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for also refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.