Colvin's act of defiance occurred months before Rosa Parks gained international recognition for a similar stand ...
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.
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern ...
Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin's 1955 act of rebellion ...
Claudette Colvin at the age of 15 defied segregation ordinances on a Montgomery bus, nine months prior to Rosa Parks in 1955.
The resignations follow growing tensions over a decision by the Trump administration to block the state out of the ...
President Trump’s comments were a blunt distillation of his administration’s racial politics, which rest on the belief that ...
Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal ...
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