A judge in Montgomery, Alabama has expunged the juvenile court record of Claudette Colvin, the Black woman who famously refused to let a white person take her city bus seat on March 2, 1955 — nine ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Montgomery Juvenile Court judge has expunged Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest for challenging segregation on the city's bus lines, ...

The 86-year-old died of natural causes, spokesman Ashley D. Roseboro told PEOPLE Colvin was 15 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus on March 2, 1955 Civil rights pioneer ...

Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, has died. Colvin's act preceded the more famous case of Rosa ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her ...

Jan. 14 (UPI) --Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in segregated Alabama, has died, according to her foundation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Montgomery Juvenile Court judge has expunged Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest for challenging segregation on the city's bus lines, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin sits for a portrait on February 5, 2009, in New York. - Julie Jacobson/AP/File Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 ...

Colvin refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. A judge in Montgomery, Alabama has expunged the juvenile court record of Claudette Colvin, the Black woman who ...