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Mar 10, 2018 · In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did...
Feb 25, 2021 · A 15-year-old gifted Black student, with aspirations to become a civil rights attorney, took a window seat near the exit door. She gazed outdoors until the white driver instructed her to give up...
Mar 15, 2009 · Most people know about Rosa Parks and the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the same bus system.
On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin boarded a bus home from school. Fifteen years old, the tiny Colvin attended Booker T. Washington High School. She’d been politicized by the mistreatment of her classmate Jeremiah Reeves and had just written a paper on the problems of downtown segregation.
Rosa Parks was arrested in December 1955. Nine months earlier, 15 year old Claudette Colvin was arrested for the exact same thing in Montgomery, Alabama. Discover more about her on womenshistory.org.
Jan 22, 2021 · You may think you know the story, but this one isn't about Rosa Parks — it's about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old who made a stand against entrenched segregation nine months before Parks did,...
Mar 14, 2014 · Claudette Colvin (1935- ) March 14, 2014 contributed by: Hannah Foster. Claudette Colvin, April 20, 1953. Fair use image. Claudette Colvin, a nurse’s aide and Civil Rights Movement activist, was born on September 5, 1939, in Birmingham, Alabama.
