Colvin's act of defiance occurred months before Rosa Parks gained international recognition for a similar stand ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Quote of the Day highlights the danger of silence during injustice. The message reminds people to ...

On Saturday, just under two weeks into the protests that are now sweeping Iran, United States President Donald Trump took to ...

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

Colvin's arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.

Discover who Martin Luther King Jr was. Learn what he fought for, his famous quotes, education, religion, Gandhi’s influence, ...

Ongoing efforts to overturn the 1964 Civil Rights Act — one of our country’s finest achievements — continue apace at the ...

“If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses grave concern over a newly proposed proclamation that, if passed, would significantly restrict the independence, ...