Claudette Colvin was a civil rights pioneer. She died this week at 86

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

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

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.

Claudette Colvin, civil rights champion arrested for not giving up bus seat in Alabama, dies at 86

In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...

Claudette Colvin, who helped spark the civil rights movement, has died

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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The Courage of Claudette Colvin

As much as despair surrounds us, courage can be seen in the work of 805UndocuFund, the thousands of people who are showing up ...
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Claudette Colvin, MLK, and the erasure of Black women from civil rights canon

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who challenged segregation as a teenager, is pictured years after her historic ...
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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 ...
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All You Need To Know About Claudette Colvin, The Woman Behind The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Despite her bravery, civil rights leaders deemed Rosa Parks a less problematic face to propel the Montgomery bus boycott ...

Claudette Colvin: Civil rights icon who refused to move seats on segregated bus dies at 86

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

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her bus seat to a White woman, dies

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in ...