FILE - Claudette Colvin answers a question at a news conference after she filed paperwork to have her juvenile record expunged as she sits next to her former attorney, Fred Gray, Oct. 26, 2021, in ...

Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, has died. Colvin's act preceded the more famous case of Rosa ...

The 86-year-old died of natural causes, spokesman Ashley D. Roseboro told PEOPLE Colvin was 15 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus on March 2, 1955 Civil rights pioneer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin: she was considered too immature and feisty to become a constitutional test case, so the middle-aged, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, months before Rosa Parks. She became one of four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin sits for a portrait on February 5, 2009, in New York. - Julie Jacobson/AP/File Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, a woman whose efforts against segregation on Montgomery's city buses predates even the iconic Rosa Parks, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, 7th April 1998. On March 2, 1955, at the age of fifteen, Colvin was arrested 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 ...