Editor’s note: The juvenile court records of Claudette Colvin have been sealed, destroyed and expunged following a judge’s ruling. Find the updated story here. Claudette Colvin, a civil rights ...

Claudette Colvin was 15 in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — 9 months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance. Colvin was arrested and charged. Now 82 ...

Claudette Colvin has spent most of her 82 years as a convicted juvenile delinquent, who would go on to college, work as a nurse's aid and raise two sons. As a teenager, she was arrested in 1955 ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who in March 1955, at the age of 15, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, is seeking to get her ...