Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient shared his personal mission to dismantle segregation and the lessons his mother instilled in him.

Jefferson County will install a Texas Historical Commission undertold marker honoring Sadie Patillo’s 1932 bus segregation case. Here's more about her story.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed ...

Claudette Colvin, widely considered an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, has died at age 86. “To us, she was more than a historical figure. She was the heart of our family, wise, ...

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Claudette Colvin, a pivotal yet long-under-recognized figure in the early civil rights movement whose defiance on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for nationwide ...

On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...