Most people know about Rosa Parks and the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the same bus system.

In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly ...

Claudette Colvin was 15 years old when she was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., and placed on indefinite probation, after refusing to vacate her seat on a bus so a young White woman could sit down ...

Claudette Colvin is a name you probably should. December 1, 2015 More than 9 years ago Bronx resident Claudette Colvin talks about segregation laws in the 1950s while having her photo taken ...

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. She wants ...

Claudette Colvin, who defied segregation on a Montgomery bus months before Rosa Parks, had her record cleared Thursday, 66 years after her protest.

In the same year that Parks made headlines, Claudette Colvin was the first individual to be arrested for acting defiantly ... Before Rosa Parks 15-Year-Old Claudette Colvin Gave Up Her Seat 9 ...

Nearly 70 years ago, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, a 15-year-old Claudette Colvin staged a similar protest — but it would be decades before much of the world ...

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. Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the ...

It’s arguably a sin of history, let alone Black History Month, that many people are unfamiliar with Claudette Colvin. She was Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks was Rosa Parks. Unfortunately, Colvin ...

Her emotions about Rosa Parks are complicated. Ms. Colvin admires Ms. Parks and concedes that a self-assured adult of 42 made a better symbol for the bus boycott than an impetuous youth of 15 ...