When she was 15, she was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white woman 9 months before Rosa Parks.

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book ... The NAACP chose Parks to be the public face of the bus boycott, rather than Colvin, because they felt Parks was more acceptable to whites and thus stood ...

A community gathering was held yesterday [March 3] to mark the stand taken by Claudette Colvin in Alabama in ... riding along with a friend on a bus in Montgomery was ordered by the bus driver ...

MONTGOMERY — When Claudette Colvin was pulled off a bus by police ... Parks’s arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a year-long civil rights protest in which Blacks refused to ride city ...

The actions of a teenager who refused to leave a bus seat in ... Trinity to recognise Claudette Colvin, who, aged 15, refused to give up her seat for a White woman in Montgomery, Alabama, 70 ...

Claudette Colvin ... with the IA [Montgomery Improvement Association, headed by Dr. King, which organized the boycott]. As a result of the violence, city officials suspended bus service for ...

Martin Luther King Jr (left) discusses the Montgomery bus boycott with other organizers ... One who did was fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, who on March 2, 1955, refused to give up her seat on the ...

The list included activist Claudette Colvin who was part of the Montgomery bus boycott; ballet dancer Misty Copeland; gymnasts Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles, and entertainers Beyonce, Rihanna, ...