Claudette Colvin, an 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested as a teen for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, wants to have her records ...

Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose, illus. by Bea Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-38973-4 Previous collaborators and National Book Award winners Colvin and Hoose ...

A new art installation and book in France recalls the lesser-known moment in March 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, when then 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to budge.

In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly ...

Claudette Colvin, 82, had borne the criminal record for 66 years after being arrested and sentenced to probation by authorities in Montgomery, Alabama when she was only 15 years old.

Author Mattie Kahn talked about Claudette Colvin's impact during the Civil Rights Movement, notably her arrest in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus nine months ...