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Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to move

Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. The post ...
Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...
Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86, emerged in the 2000s as an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, having refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama ...
Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, is dead ...
Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin made history. As the civil rights pioneer has died at 86, we revisit the courage, ...
Colvin's arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.
A Washington state resident has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges linked to a 2024 incident in which a Black woman using Seattle-area public transit was assaulted by a man who called her ...
In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus ...
In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...
Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old in 1955 when she boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was told to move to the back of the bus.
Claudette Colvin, a "bespectacled, studious looking high school student" who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman ...