Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...

Sarah Herbert talks about taking people to work during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in this interview from Aug. 28, 2005.

On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...

Rosa Parks wasn't the first arrested for defying unjust segregation laws on a Montgomery bus. But when Parks refused a Montgomery bus driver's order to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, she set in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala.(AP) — Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...

Colvin’s act helped lead to the 1956 Supreme Court case that ultimately desegregated the Montgomery buses. Claudette Colvin, the civil ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...