Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person — nine months before Rosa Parks did the very ...

Claudette Colvin was 15 years old when she was arrested ... This was March 1955 — nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for violating Alabama’s racial segregation laws after refusing ...

Claudette Colvin, became the first of several women arrested for refusing to abide by the state's segregation laws and social codes of racial deference. Nine months later, Rosa Parks did the same.

Now 73, Claudette Colvin joins us for a rare interview along with Brooklyn College Professor Jeanne Theoharis, author of “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.” Theoharis says Parks’ act ...

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 ...

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the ... and she turned out to be the most powerful witness—was Claudette Colvin. In a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel ruled in favor of the ...

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give ... But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent: Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a black high school in Montgomery ...

On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old Black girl on ... in Alabama’s capital who defied Jim Crow laws before Parks did. Rosa Parks’ more famous refusal to surrender her seat ...

*Kanye West has many fans wondering: Who is Claudette Colvin? — after his recent Q&A session on the Clubhouse social audio app. West (now officially known as Ye) has been banned from the ...

It’s arguably a sin of history, let alone Black History Month, that many people are unfamiliar with Claudette Colvin. She was Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks was Rosa Parks. Unfortunately ...

Rosa Parks's name is known round the world, but what about Claudette Colvin? On March 2, 1955, nine months before Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., ...