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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WSFA) - People from all over the country gathered in Birmingham on Saturday to honor the life and legacy of Claudette Colvin, an overlooked pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement whose ...

On 2 March 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African- American high-school student, boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, taking a window seat. “When the driver ordered her to give up ...

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History often remembers movements by their most recognizable moments. It less often remembers the teenagers who moved first. Family and friends mourn the loss of Claudette Colvin, who is famous 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 ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86 on Jan. 13, her family announced. Though her name is less widely known than Parks’, ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. The act of ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as a teenager preceded the better-known efforts of Rosa Parks by less than a year, has died. She was 86. "It is with ...

Colvin was 15 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus on March 2, 1955 Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at ...

Colvin's courageous act took place on March 2, 1955. Claudette Colvin, a pioneering figure in the U.S. civil rights movement who first refused to give up her bus seat, has died . She was 86. Colvin’s ...