MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WCSC) — Rosa Parks was arrested 70 years ago for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, an act of defiance that became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. The 42 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86. Ashley Roseboro, a spokesperson for ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...