In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus ...
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...
In 1956, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in a case that successfully challenged Montgomery’s segregated bus seating as ...
Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the ...
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Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...
In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...
The Montgomery Advertiser on MSN
Funeral details announced for civil rights legend Claudette Colvin
Colvin died at age 86 on Tuesday.
As much as despair surrounds us, courage can be seen in the work of 805UndocuFund, the thousands of people who are showing up ...
Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who challenged segregation as a teenager, is pictured years after her historic ...
Who are Claudette Colvin’s children? What we know of civil rights pioneer’s family as she dies at 86
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 ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WBRC) - For too long, too few people knew how Claudette Colvin changed history. But Gloria Laster says her ...
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Civil rights hero Claudette Colvin dies at age 86
Colvin's arrest on a Montgomery bus at age 15, months before Rosa Parks, helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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