Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86, emerged in the 2000s as an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, having refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama ...

At 15, Colvin became the first Black person to be arrested for challenging Montgomery’s bus laws. History has largely ignored ...

Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 was a key moment in the US civil rights ...

As a 15-year-old, Colvin refused to move after a bus driver complained that she was sitting near two white girls in violation ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

I think they [the NAACP] were looking for the right person,” Colvin explained why her actions did not spark the boycott, in ...

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This week, the world mourns the loss of another great filmmaker, Rosa von Praunheim, the provocative gay director whose work is credited with kickstarting the LGBTQ+ rights movement in Germany & ...