Claudette Colvin discusses the mindset she was in during her arrest on a Montgomery City Bus, nine months before Rosa Parks. Recorded on Nov. 2, 2005.

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 ...

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’, ...

Claudette Colvin, a pioneer in the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 86. As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...

Claudette Colvin speaks alongside civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, during a press conference at the Montgomery County Family Court on October 26, 2021, in Montgomery, Alabama, after petitioning ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAFF) - February celebrates Black History Month, which is a time to honor the contributions, achievements, and central role of Black people in history, and also a time to honor the ...