The juvenile record of Claudette Colvin was expunged 66 years after her arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus, PEOPLE confirms. The civil rights pioneer ...

Claudette Colvin and three other black students were told on March 2nd, 1955 in downtown Montgomery to give up their seats, but Colvin refused. Then, Colvin was arrested and put on indefinite ...

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice.