Phillip Hoose is the author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which received the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and a Newbery Honor. Here, Hoose pays tribute to the ...

Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights. A portrait of American civil rights activist ...

Claudette Colvin was remembered at her funeral Saturday as a hero in life, and not just for her stance against Montgomery's segregation rules from the mid-1950s when she was just a teenager. Colvin ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WSFA) - People from all over the country gathered in Birmingham on Saturday to honor the life and legacy of Claudette Colvin, an overlooked pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement whose ...

On 2 March 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African- American high-school student, boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, taking a window seat. “When the driver ordered her to give up ...

Last week I heard a story on the radio about a woman who had just died — a woman who had made history. And yet, I had never heard of her. So I listened closely. Her name was Claudette Colvin. She died ...

Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. The civil rights pioneer who was only 15 years old when she refused to move her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...

History often remembers movements by their most recognizable moments. It less often remembers the teenagers who moved first. Family and friends mourn the loss of Claudette Colvin, who is famous for ...

More than 70 years ago, a Black teenager pushed against racial boundary lines in Montgomery, Alabama. She had learned about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth at her segregated high school, and the ...