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  2. www.bbc.com › news › stories-43171799Claudette Colvin: The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks

    Mar 10, 2018 · 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...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Claudette_ColvinClaudette Colvin - Wikipedia

    Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.

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  5. www.biography.com › activists › claudette-colvinClaudette Colvin: Biography, Civil Rights Activism, Bus Boycott

    Feb 8, 2024 · Claudette Colvin is an activist who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1950s. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks' more famous...

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  6. www.womenshistory.org › articles › girl-who-actedThe Girl Who Acted Before Rosa Parks | National Women's ...

    After school on March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin walked to downtown Montgomery with three of her classmates. She and her friends were going to take the city bus home from school that day. When they boarded the bus, they sat behind the first five rows, which were reserved for white passengers.

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  8. www.npr.org › 2009/03/15 › 101719889Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin - NPR

    Mar 15, 2009 · Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person — nine months before Rosa Parks did the very...

  9. time.com › 5786220The Montgomery Bus Riders Who Came Before Rosa Parks | TIME

    Mar 2, 2020 · O n 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...

  10. www.ourhistory.org.uk › claudette-colvin-theClaudette Colvin – the teenager that inspired Rosa Parks

    Jul 3, 2021 · Nine months after Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat, Rosa Parks became the “right person” on 1 December. On the night of Parks’ arrest, the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of Black women working for civil rights, began circulating flyers calling for a boycott of the bus system.

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