Claudette Colvin, whose challenge to Alabama’s segregation laws nine months before Rosa Parks provided a spark for the modern ...
On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...
Claudette Colvin, a woman whose efforts against segregation on Montgomery's city buses predates even the iconic Rosa Parks, has died at age 86. "It is with profound sadness that the Claudette Colvin ...