Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed ...

Amateur skaters will be lapping the ice around the clock this weekend at Rosa Parks Circle in Grand Rapids for the 21st ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Claudette Colvin, a “bespectacled, studious looking high school student” who refused to give up her ...

Do you know about Claudette Colvin, the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat nine months before Parks did?

In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...

To mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, "Sunday Morning" talks with some of those who were engaged from the very beginning ...

Buffalo Rock opened its East Milton distribution center Jan. 21, continuing a wave of new, higher-wage jobs coming to Santa ...

A local community came together to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and showcase his legacy through a theatrical ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern ...

“I think they [the NAACP] were looking for the right person,” Colvin explained why her actions did not spark the boycott, in ...