Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

A deeper look at Rosa Parks’ decades of organizing, resistance, and political struggle beyond her iconic 1955 arrest. Rosa Parks’ story begins long before the world heard her name. Born in Tuskegee in ...

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 ...

Refused to give up bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks Arrest helped end racial segregation of US transit system Colvin's story remained largely eclipsed for decades Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. civil ...

Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was the ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who was arrested as a teenager for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, has died at age 86. Colvin’s death ...

GLASSBORO, N.J. (WPVI) -- Rowan University held its 21st annual Rosa Parks luncheon Tuesday. New Jersey Lieutenant Governor ...