Claudette Colvin: Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who defied bus segregation in Montgomery nine months before Rosa ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

Claudette Colvin: Civil rights icon who refused to move seats on segregated bus dies at 86 - Colvin's act of defiance ...

Claudette Colvin died at 86, remembered for her 1955 stand against bus segregation in Montgomery months before Rosa Parks’ ...

As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to move after a bus driver complained that she was sitting near two white girls in violation ...

Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, died ...

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, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, is dead ...

Colvin challenged the discriminatory seating practice when she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies aged 86, remembered for challenging bus segregation before Rosa Parks.