Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's ...

Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights.

US civil rights activist who as a schoolgirl protested against segregation on Alabama’s buses ...

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In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance.

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

Inspired by the example of 19th century abolitionists, 15-year-old Colvin refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus ...

Claudette Colvin, photographed here in 1998, helped end segregation on public transportation. Dudley M. Brooks / The Washington Post via Getty Images Claudette Colvin, widely considered an unsung hero ...

Colvin's arrest on a Montgomery bus at age 15, months before Rosa Parks, helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who challenged segregation as a teenager, is pictured years after her historic arrest that preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Anderson, a lifelong educator, ...

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 ...