I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.

If you don’t remember the name Claudette Colvin, that may be because you ... That act of defiance took place nine months before Rosa Parks made news for not ceding her seat to a white man.

In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a ...

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 ...