Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...

A top Justice Department official says there is not currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into ...

The decision to keep the Civil Rights Division out of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good marks a sharp ...

Claudette Colvin, arrested at 15 years old for refusing to give up her bus seat, helped spark the civil rights movement.

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

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

In 1956, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in a case that successfully challenged Montgomery’s segregated bus seating as ...

Colvin’s arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.

The nation’s highest court heard more than three hours of arguments in two cases regarding state bans on transgender students ...