Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed ...

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 ...

Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat before Rosa. Parks but respectability politics, colorism relegated her to the ...

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Claudette Colvin, a pivotal yet long-under-recognized figure in the early civil rights movement whose defiance on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for nationwide ...

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent: ...