Died: Claudette Colvin, Unsung Civil Rights Pioneer

On a March day in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Under Jim Crow laws, Black riders were forced to sit in the back or give up their seats if the white section became full. Colvin sat with other Black passengers. But when a white woman boarded the crowded Read more... The post Died: Claudette Colvin, Unsung Civil Rights Pioneer appeared first on Christianity Today.