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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.
Apr 5, 2024 · Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) American teenager who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person. Her protest was one of several by Black women challenging segregation on buses in the months before Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
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 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 exactly...
Claudette Colvin | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Courtesy of Alean Bowser. Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin. listen. 6:16. © 2009 npr. On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin boarded a bus home from school. Fifteen years old, the tiny Colvin attended Booker T. Washington High School.
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 · Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person — nine months before Rosa Parks did the very same...
