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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.
Claudette Colvin, civil rights activist, nurse [10] Anna J. Cooper, civil and women's rights activist, author, educator, sociologist, scholar [11] John Anthony Copeland Jr., abolitionist; Patrisse Cullors, civil rights activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement [12] [13] [14] Elijah Cummings, civil rights advocate
Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist and retired nurse aide from Montgomery, Alabama. ... You can dive deeper into Bolin’s groundbreaking career in the 2011 biography “Daughter of the ...
They praised the young adult biography for giving Colvin the recognition she never received back in 1955. The Wall Street Journal said "History might have forgotten Claudette Colvin, or relegated her to footnote status, had writer Phillip Hoose not stumbled upon her name in the course of other research and tracked her down."
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.
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
Claudette Colvin (born 1939) – first person to be arrested protesting bus segregation in the U.S. South, in Montgomery, Alabama, March 2, 1955 [138] Ita Ford (1940–1980) – Maryknoll nun, murdered by Salvadoran death squad; Jack Greenberg (1924–2016) – civil rights lawyer as head of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund for 23 years [139]
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 ...