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, ...

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Claudette Colvin's death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Colvin boarded a segregated Montgomery bus on March 2, 1955, and claimed a rear window seat during her high ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 86, her foundation ...

FILE - Claudette Colvin answers a question at a news conference after she filed paperwork to have her juvenile record expunged as she sits next to her former attorney, Fred Gray, Oct. 26, 2021, in ...

Civil Rights pioneer Claudette Colvin died at the age of 86, her family and foundation confirmed Tuesday afternoon. “To us, she was more than a historical figure. She was the heart of our family, wise ...

Claudette Colvin, a key but long-overlooked figure in the early fight against racial segregation and for civil rights equality, has died at the age of 86. Her death was confirmed on Tuesday, January ...

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 ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, whose courageous refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in 1955 helped ignite the modern civil rights movement, has died at 86. Her passing was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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. The women ...