The juvenile record of Claudette Colvin was expunged 66 years after her arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus, PEOPLE confirms. The civil rights pioneer ...

Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice.

Claudette Colvin and three other black students were told on March 2nd, 1955 in downtown Montgomery to give up their seats, but Colvin refused. Then, Colvin was arrested and put on indefinite ...

Victorville leaders to host Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace March & Ceremony and Civil Rights Memorial Plaque unveiling near city hall.

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...