Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin: she was considered too immature and feisty to become a constitutional test case, so the middle-aged, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, months before Rosa Parks. She became one of four ...

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

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Colvin died on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 13, of natural causes, a spokesman for her family confirms to PEOPLE. "They're grieving her loss ...

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 ...

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, a civil rights pioneer whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 86, her foundation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin: Civil rights icon who refused to move seats on segregated bus dies at 86 Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, ...

African-American activist Claudette Colvin, whose arrest for refusing to give up seat on a segregated bus preceded Rosa Parks’ more famous stance, has died. She was 86. On March 2, 1955, as she headed ...