BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955, months ...

Claudette Colvin was 15 in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — 9 months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance. Colvin was arrested and charged. Now 82, Colvin ...

The juvenile record of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has been expunged, 66 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman. Colvin was just 15 when a bus driver ...

More than 65 years had passed since police dragged a handcuffed 15-year-old named Claudette Colvin off a Montgomery bus and jailed her for refusing to give up her seat to white passengers, nine months ...

Claudette Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Public transportation was segregated in the city and Colvin was told ...