Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin says he wants to prioritize walking, biking and increasing mobility options for 2026, while looking for ways to de-emphasize the need for ...
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a ...
Claudette Colvin, a “bespectacled, studious looking high school student” who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman ...
Claudette Colvin at the age of 15 defied segregation ordinances on a Montgomery bus, nine months prior to Rosa Parks in 1955.
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.