Colvin's act of defiance occurred months before Rosa Parks gained international recognition for a similar stand ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...

Like the civil rights movement itself, the federal holiday didn’t come together seamlessly. It wasn't officially adopted ...

U.S. civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in ...

Rick Garcia, a longtime Chicago LGBTQ+ activist and community leader who was at the forefront of many civil rights victories, ...

President Trump said civil rights protections from the 1960s left white people ‘very badly treated,’ calling it reverse ...

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 and became a US civil rights pioneer ...

President Trump’s comments were a blunt distillation of his administration’s racial politics, which rest on the belief that ...

Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance ...

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in ...

One of the greatest leaders of 20th century America is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During his years of service during the ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern ...