Nine months before Rosa Parks resisted segregation laws by refusing to leave her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus so a white person could sit down, a 15-year-old girl took the same courageous action ...

Claudette Colvin: The Story Before Rosa Parks Nine months before the arrest of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin was arrest on a Montgomery city bus, and would be part of the case to end segregation on ...

WJBF – Did you know that Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving up her bus seat nine months prior to Rosa Parks? Claudette Colvin and three other black students were told on March 2nd, 1955 in ...

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful ...

Colvin was 15 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955, nine months before Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.

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NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is honoring a civil rights movement pioneer by waiving transit fares for Claudette Colvin Day, on Thursday, Sept. 5. Riders can ride at ...

The actions of a teenager who refused to leave a bus seat in a segregated United States will be celebrated with presentations and music on Monday. Members of the public have been invited to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans ...