As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to move after a bus driver complained that she was sitting near two white girls in violation of segregation laws.

Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ...

Claudette Colvin, widely considered an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, has died at age 86. “To us, she was ...

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

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

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

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

This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus ...