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TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM.AT AGE 15, CLAUDETTE COLVIN REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A SEGREGATED BUS IN MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, AND WAS ARRESTED ON ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monday, March 2 marked the 71st anniversary of the stand taken by 15-year-old Claudette Colvin on a bus in Montgomery; about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...