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 death was announced Tuesday ...

When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MONTGOMERY, AL - OCTOBER 26: Civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, and Claudette Colvin, 82, listen during a press conference ...

The Southern Courier dared to report on civil rights news in ways other publications would not. The Southern Courier, a Montgomery newspaper launched during the Civil Rights Movement, will receive a ...

Life of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin honored by loved ones ...

History had me glued to the seat,” she said, reflecting on her arrest as a 15-year-old after refusing to yield her bus seat ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who challenged segregation as a teenager, is pictured years after her historic ...

To mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, "Sunday Morning" talks with some of those who were engaged from the very beginning ...

As the nation celebrates Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, it is also a time to remember the women who helped King ...