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 ...

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

But Colvin made her mark on the minds of others. When Rosa Parks boarded the bus that fateful day and refused to relinquish her seat, it wasn’t that she was simply tired; she was sick and tired ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rosa Parks's name is known round the world, but what about Claudette Colvin? On March 2, 1955, nine months before Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., a skinny ...

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 ...

On March 2, 1955, a full nine months before Rosa Parks took her famous stand, Colvin boarded a city bus with her friends, taking a seat behind the first five rows, which were reserved for whites.