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Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama , for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
Although 15-year-old Claudette Colvin had done the same thing nine months earlier, Parks' action led directly to the Montgomery bus boycott. A more common act of civil disobedience (in opposition to Jim Crow laws ) during the civil rights movement would be a " colored " person (i.e. an African American ) sitting at a " whites only " lunch ...
Warren K. Leffler's photograph of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the National Mall. Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the civil rights movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans and the nonviolent response of the movement.
Colvin refused to give up her bus seat for a White woman months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance. Claudette Colvin's record expunged 66 years after refusing to give up seat Skip to main content
In 1955, Claudette Colvin was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a White woman. That incident happened nine months before Rosa Parks. "History had me glued to the ...
Colvin, then 15, was arrested in March 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus to a white rider. Claudette Colvin's arrest record expunged 66 years after she refused ...
This book covers the experiences of Claudette Colvin in the 1950s, specifically focusing on her role in the Civil Rights Movement and her involvement in the Browder v. Gayle trial. Colvin is notable within the case because she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus when she was 15 years old and nine months before Rosa Parks refused to ...
The juvenile record of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has been expunged, 66 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman.