The unsung Civil Rights icon was arrested at 15 years old for violating bus segregation ordinances in Alabama in 1955.

Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...

Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86, emerged in the 2000s as an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, having ...

DETROIT — Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress ...

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

Claudette Colvin, arrested at 15 years old for refusing to give up her bus seat, helped spark the civil rights movement.

Claudette Colvin's defiance helped ignite the civil rights movement, serving as a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, which ended ...

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty and other central Ohio community leaders commemorated the 20-year anniversary of Ohio becoming the first state to have a day to memorialize Rosa Parks, the late Civil Rights ...

“I think they [the NAACP] were looking for the right person,” Colvin explained why her actions did not spark the boycott, in 2015, “the face of the total movement.” ...

By Steve Gorman Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her ...

Mrs. Parks said upon retiring from her job with Conyers that she wanted to devote more time to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. The institute, incorporated in 1987, is ...