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

In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance.

More than a half-century later, Colvin was asked why she would not relinquish her seat as racist laws demanded.

Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested ‌at ​age 15 for refusing to give ‌up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa ​Parks' ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in ...