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.
Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...
Despite her bravery, civil rights leaders deemed Rosa Parks a less problematic face to propel the Montgomery bus boycott ...
Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. The post ...
In 1956, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in a case that successfully challenged Montgomery’s segregated bus seating as ...
Civil right figure Claudette Colvin has passed away of natural causes at the age of 86. People Magazine reported that Colvin died on the morning of January 13, 2026. Claudette Colvin was a mother to ...
Claudette Colvin, a “bespectacled, studious looking high school student” who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman ...
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...
I think they [the NAACP] were looking for the right person,” Colvin explained why her actions did not spark the boycott, in ...
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a ...
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