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Bookmark or Share- Fifteen‑year‑old Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her ... - HISTORYA full nine months before Rosa Parks 's famous act of civil disobedience, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin is arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a...
- Claudette Colvin | Biography, Education, Bus, Rosa Parks, Childhood ...Claudette Colvin is an American woman who was arrested as a teenager in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman. Her protest was one of several by Black women challenging segregation on buses in the months before Rosa Parks’s more famous act.
- Claudette Colvin: the forgotten teenager who said 'no' before Rosa ...On March 2, 1955, Claudette stood her ground, refusing to yield her seat to a white passenger on a city bus, an act that not only sparked her arrest but also ignited a chain reaction in the fight against segregation. But who was Claudette Colvin, really? Why was her courageous act largely forgotten for so long?
- Claudette Colvin - The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa ParksOn 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.
- Claudette Colvin (1935- ) - BlackpastClaudette Colvin, a nurse’s aide and Civil Rights Movement activist, was born on September 5, 1939, in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents were Mary Jane Gadson and C.P. Austin, but she was raised by her great-aunt and great-uncle, Mary Ann and Q.P. Colvin.
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