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Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Now she’s fighting to get her record expunged - CNN
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 ...
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Claudette Colvin, arrested for not giving up her seat for a White woman in 1955, has record expunged: "My name was cleared. I'm no longer a juvenile delinquent at 82 ... - CBS News
Claudette Colvin was 15 in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — 9 months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance. Colvin was arrested and charged.
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Claudette Colvin’s juvenile record has been expunged, 66 years after she was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a White person - CNN
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 ...
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Claudette Colvin: The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks - BBC
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 ...
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15-Year-Old Claudette Colvin Sparked The Montgomery Bus Boycott - Oxygen Official Site
Read about Claudette Colvin, who, as a 15-year-old nearly 70 years ago, refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. Nearly 70 years ago, nine months before Rosa ...
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The Montgomery Bus Riders Who Came Before Rosa Parks | TIME
On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was sitting on a totally full bus in Montgomery, Ala., when the driver asked her and three black schoolmates give up the whole row so that a white ...
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Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus. She’s still on probation. - The Washington Post
Claudette Colvin was 15 years old when she was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., and placed on indefinite probation, after refusing to vacate her seat on a bus so a young White woman could sit down ...
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Claudette Colvin's record cleared 66 years after refusing to give up bus seat - TheGrio
Claudette Colvin, 82, speaks alongside Civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, during a press conference at the Montgomery County Family Court on October 26, 2021, in Montgomery, Ala., after ...
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Black History’s Heroes Series: Claudette Colvin, the first woman to refuse to give up her seat on a bus - Washington Examiner
It’s arguably a sin of history, let alone Black History Month, that many people are unfamiliar with Claudette Colvin. She was Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks was Rosa Parks. Unfortunately, Colvin ...
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Claudette Colvin taught us you’re never too young, or too old, to make a difference
Sixty-five years after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus (9 months before Rosa Parks did the same), Claudette Colvin inspired us by demonstrating it is never too late to ...
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Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Now she’s fighting to get her record expunged | CNN - CNN International
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 ...