Claudette Colvin, whose defiant act on a segregated Alabama bus played an unsung role in the early civil rights movement, dies

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Claudette Colvin, a "bespectacled, studious looking high school student" who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman long before anyone had ever heard of Rosa Parks, has died. On Tuesday, the Claudette Colvin Foundation announced that the Montgomery native had died at the age of 86. According [...]