Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. The civil rights pioneer who was only 15 years old when she refused to move her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa ...
WESA: Before Rosa Parks, a teenager defied segregation on an Alabama bus
MSN: Rosa Parks’ activism long before the bus: A lifelong fight for justice
A deeper look at Rosa Parks’ decades of organizing, resistance, and political struggle beyond her iconic 1955 arrest. Rosa Parks’ story begins long before the world heard her name. Born in Tuskegee in ...
Rosa Parks’ activism long before the bus: A lifelong fight for justice
Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin made history. As the civil rights pioneer has died at 86, we revisit the courage, complexity, and cost of her resistance and why her story was sidelined for so long ...
National Geographic news: The teen who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus—before Rosa Parks
The teen who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus—before Rosa Parks
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86 on Jan. 13, her ...
MSN: Months before Rosa Parks made headlines, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat for a white woman on a segregated bus
Months before Rosa Parks made headlines, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat for a white woman on a segregated bus