Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

Jefferson County will install a Texas Historical Commission undertold marker honoring Sadie Patillo’s 1932 bus segregation case. Here's more about her story.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient shared his personal mission to dismantle segregation and the lessons his mother ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed ...

my mindset was on freedom and my mindset was on the hero. The women especially the women soldier on the truth and carry your stuff. So I was not going to move that. More than 60 years after Claudette ...

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Claudette Colvin, a pivotal yet long-under-recognized figure in the early civil rights movement whose defiance on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for nationwide ...

On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...

Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, has died. Colvin’s act preceded the more famous case of Rosa ...