Attorney Fred D. Gray Sr. was a key legal figure in the Civil Rights movement, arguing landmark cases. Gray successfully argued Browder v. Gayle, which led to the desegregation of Montgomery's bus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed ...

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. Her death was ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Claudette Colvin, a pivotal yet long-under-recognized figure in the early civil rights movement whose defiance on a Montgomery bus helped lay the groundwork for nationwide ...

Claudette Colvin, whose act of defiance against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, died Tuesday in Texas, according to the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation ...