Before Rosa Parks took a stand by sitting down, there was Claudette Colvin—a 15-year-old high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a ...

Robert and Jean Graetz. The Robert and Jean Graetz Symposium on Human Rights and Reconciliation returns April 10 after a ...

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

The compositions pay homage to unsung women in history such as Florence Ballard, Claudette Colvin, Donyale Lune and The Clark Sisters, with other works highlighting ’90s media characters and the ...

One who did was fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, who on March 2, 1955, refused to give up her seat on the bus and was arrested. Black Montgomerians were outraged, and Parks fundraised for Colvin ...