Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights. A portrait of American civil rights activist ...

Julien Grable Colvin Jr., a low-income housing specialist who directed Baltimore’s dollar-house rehabilitation effort in Oldtown’s Stirling Street, died of dementia Jan. 5 at his Cedarcroft home. He ...

Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's segregation rules from the mid-1950s when she was just a teenager. Colvin ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WSFA) - People from all over the country gathered in Birmingham on Saturday to honor the life and legacy of Claudette Colvin, an overlooked pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement whose ...

On 2 March 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African- American high-school student, boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, taking a window seat. “When the driver ordered her to give up ...

Longtime children’s editor Andrea Colvin has announced the launch of an eponymous literary agency specializing in books for young readers, from picture books through new adult. Colvin is best known ...

Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin made history. As the civil rights pioneer has died at 86, we revisit the courage, complexity, and cost of her resistance and why her story was sidelined for so long ...

History often remembers movements by their most recognizable moments. It less often remembers the teenagers who moved first. Family and friends mourn the loss of Claudette Colvin, who is famous for ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat in 1955, died at 86.

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. The act of ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known efforts of Rosa Parks by less than a year, has died. She was 86. "It is with ...