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  1. Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start ...

    5 hours ago · Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has …

  2. Claudette Colvin, civil rights champion arrested for not ...

    5 hours ago · 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.

  3. Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies at 86 | AP News

    7 hours ago · Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil …

  4. Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer on a Montgomery bus ...

    7 hours ago · Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer on a Montgomery bus, dies at 86 Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city …

  5. Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer, dies at 86 - BBC

    1 day ago · Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.

  6. Civil rights icon who refused to move seats on segregated bus ...

    6 hours ago · Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, whose courageous refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped ignite the modern civil …

  7. Claudette Colvin dies; before Rosa Parks, she refused to move ...

    6 hours ago · As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to move after a bus driver complained that she was sitting near two white girls in violation of segregation laws.