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.

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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 was 15 years old in 1955 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Public transportation was segregated in the city and Colvin was told ...

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'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 ...

This story is part of AL.com’s series “21 Alabamians who made a difference in 2021,” highlighting people who have made our state a better place to live this year. Stories in this series will publish ...

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.

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 ...