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On 2 March 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African- American high-school student, boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, taking a window seat. “When the driver ordered her to give up ...
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Who was Claudette Colvin? The teen arrested before Rosa Parks who helped ignite the civil rights movement dies
Claudette Colvin's death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Colvin boarded a segregated Montgomery bus on March 2, 1955, and claimed a rear window seat during her high ...
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Gainesville celebrates legacies of civil rights pioneers during Black History Month
Local leaders invite all neighbors to celebrate the legacies of Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin during a Black History Month ceremony at 11 a.m. on Feb. 24 at the RTS Rosa Parks Transfer Station.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...
FILE - Claudette Colvin answers a question at a news conference after she filed paperwork to have her juvenile record expunged as she sits next to her former attorney, Fred Gray, Oct. 26, 2021, in ...
Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 86, her foundation ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. The women ...
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