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Topic: Montgomery bus boycott

Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro speaks during Turning Point's annual AmericaFest conference in remembrance of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk (Photo by Olivier Touron / AFP)

Ben Shapiro's Rosa Parks revisionism

Sophia Tesfaye
American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, 7th April 1998. On March 2, 1955, at the age of fifteen, Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. This predated the arrest of Rosa Parks and the the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott by nine months. (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/The The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/Getty Images)

Claudette Colvin dies at 86

Jelinda Montes
(AP/Gene Herrick)

Rosa Parks: Let my people go

Jeanne Theoharis