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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.
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.
Claudette Colvin, arrested in March 1955, nine months before Parks' arrest, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated Montgomery bus. Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638, home of Rosa and Raymond Parks, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to 1956.
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 ...
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
Aurelia Shines Browder Coleman (January 29, 1919 – February 4, 1971) was an African-American civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama.In April 1955, almost eight months before the arrest of Rosa Parks and a month after the arrest of Claudette Colvin, she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider.
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 ...