Nine months before the arrest of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin was arrest on a Montgomery city bus, and would be part of the ...

Michelle Hofmann is an Emmy Award winning KRIS 6 News Anchor and Reporter who is passionate about advocating for the communities she serves. Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin took a stand by staying ...

WJBF – Did you know that Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving up her bus seat nine months prior to Rosa Parks? Claudette Colvin and three other black students were told on March 2nd, 1955 in ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the ...

Nine months before Rosa Parks resisted segregation laws by refusing to leave her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus so a white person could sit down, a 15-year-old girl took the same courageous action ...

A short film entitled "A Letter To Claudette Colvin", written and directed by Victoria Wilson bringing awareness to Colvin's involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ignited due to her refusal ...

MONTH. HAPPENING TODAY, YOU CAN RIDE RTA, RTA BUSSES FOR FREE. IT’S ALL TO HONOR A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON. YEAH, THIS IS IN HONOR OF CLAUDETTE COLVIN, WHO IS TURNING 84 YEARS YOUNG TODAY AS A 15 YEAR OLD ...

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, Colvin is just ...

Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, ...