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Months Before Rosa Parks Made Headlines, Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Seat for a White Woman on a Segregated Bus
Colvin, a lesser-known figure who took a stand against racial discrimination as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, has died ...
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Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to move
Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. The post ...
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...
Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ...
Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
"This illustration honors visionaries whose talent, leadership, and courage have shaped the American story, because Black ...
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Civil rights pioneer who started bus protest dies at 86: ‘History had me glued to the seat’
Claudette Colvin, at 15, was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for also refusing to give up ...
Attendees at the 44th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in downtown San Diego along Harbor Drive this Sunday can ...
“We’re telling a story,” Holley said. “We basically take them from Graceland to Sun Studio, to Bass Pro, to the Civil Rights ...
Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1955, has died at 86. Her bravery paved the way for the civil rights movement.
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