Arrested for refusing to give up bus seat in 1955, she's fighting to clear her record
by The Associated Press
Oct 26, 2021
3 minutes
MONTGOMERY, Ala. â Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. Convicted of assaulting a police officer while being arrested, she was placed on probation yet never received notice that she'd finished the term and was on safe ground legally.
Now 82 and slowed by age, Colvin is
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