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Feb 8, 2024 · Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist who, before Rosa Parks, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle,...
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.
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...
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 2, 2020 · Claudette Colvin in 1952. Alamy. By Olivia B. Waxman. March 2, 2020 11:00 AM EST. O n March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was sitting on a totally full bus in Montgomery, Ala., when...
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