Claudette Colvin, whose challenge to Alabama’s segregation laws nine months before Rosa Parks provided a spark for the modern ...
In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...
Nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance, a 15-year-old Black girl named Claudette Colvin had already ...
Claudette Colvin, who was arrested at age 15 in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...
Claudette Colvin died at 86, remembered for her 1955 stand against bus segregation in Montgomery months before Rosa Parks’ ...