A Montgomery Juvenile Court judge has expunged Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest for challenging segregation on the city's bus lines, an act that preceded Rosa Parks' similar challenge by nine months.

A Montgomery Juvenile Court judge has expunged Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest for challenging segregation on the city's bus lines, an act that preceded Rosa Parks' similar challenge by nine months.

Claudette Colvin was only 15 years old when she protested segregation by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, ...

ABILENE, Texas — Many know the story of Rosa Parks, but few know the story of Claudette Colvin. She was born Claudette Austin, on September 5th, 1939, in Montgomery Alabama. In school, she became a ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who in March 1955, at the age of 15, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, is seeking to get her ...

Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala. back in 1955. After 66 years, a judge cleared her juvenile record. Colvin played a critical role in the civil rights ...

Nine months before the arrest of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin was arrest on a Montgomery city bus, and would be part of the ...

Claudette Colvin's journey from Montgomery student to unsung civil rights hero is being turned into a movie under "Captain America" actor and first-time director Anthony Mackie. As first reported by ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin was 15 when she was arrested and given indefinite probation for refusing to surrender her seat on a segregated Montgomery city bus, nine months before Rosa Parks.

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A judge in Montgomery, Alabama has expunged the juvenile court record of Claudette Colvin, the Black woman who famously refused to let a white person take her city bus seat on March 2, 1955 — nine ...

The juvenile court records of Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused in 1955 to give up her seat to a White person on an Alabama bus, have been sealed, destroyed and expunged following a ...