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How Claudette Colvin helped spark America's Civil Rights Movement at the age of 15. The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks. 10 March 2018 Colvin was the first person to be arrested for "The Other Rosa Parks: Now 73, Claudette Colvin Was First to Refuse Giving Up Seat on Montgomery Bus." Democracy Now, March 29, 2013. Adler, Margot. "Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin." National Public Radio, March 15, 2009. Kitchen, Sebastian. "Claudette Colvin." The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Mechanic, Michael. 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. Most people know about Rosa Parks and the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the same bus system. On March 2nd, 1955, a 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Right about now you might be thinking, “Um, I think you mean Rosa Parks.” But actually, Park’s arrest came nine months later — on December 1st of that year. 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 white Claudette Colvin is an American woman who was arrested as a teenager in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman. Her protest was one of several by Black women challenging segregation on buses in the months before Rosa Parks’s more famous act. In the chronicles of the Civil Rights Movement, one name remains regrettably shrouded by the obscurity of history – Claudette Colvin. Aged just 15, this fiery teenager, imbued with the spirit of resistance, defied the oppressive conventions of a racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama, a full nine months before the more famous act of defiance by Rosa Parks. On March 2, 1955, Claudette stood Parks’ detention set off an array of boycotts in the city, mainly ones concerned with the city’s public transit, lasting over a year. This series of events sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. Nine months prior to the imprisonment of Rosa Parks, fifteen year old Claudette Colvin was There were actually several women who came before her; one of whom was Claudette Colvin. It was March 2, 1955, when the fifteen-year-old schoolgirl refused to move to the back of the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks’ stand that launched the Montgomery bus boycott. Claudette had been studying Black leaders like Harriet Tubman in her Her refusal to give up her seat to a white person came nine months before Rosa Parks and helped spark the historic Montgomery bus boycott. CLAUDETTE COLVIN: First one, Rosa Parks; my mother Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice book (affiliate): months before Rosa Parks, a 15-year-old student named Claudette Colvin refus On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin boarded a bus home from school. Fifteen years old, the tiny Colvin attended Booker T. Washington High School. She’d been politicized by the mistreatment of her classmate Jeremiah Reeves and had just written a paper on the problems of downtown segregation. The Colvin case, Douglas Brinkley writes in Rosa Parks, “proved a good dress rehearsal for the real drama shortly to come.” The African American community needed a citizen whose character was unimpeachable, a “pillar of the community.” Nine months later, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks—unbeknownst to her—would become that person. How Claudette Colvin helped spark America's Civil Rights Movement at the age of 15. The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks. Published. 10 March 2018 Colvin was the first person to be History remembers the bold.Alexander the Great, Marie Curie and Neil Armstrong are all remembered for their audacity, discoveries and exploration. But sometimes, a figure slips through the cracks.While Rosa Parks is celebrated for her refusal to give up her bus seat, Claudette Colvin’s identical act of defiance in the same city nine months earlier has been all but forgotten. Most American students learn about Rosa Parks, the African American civil rights activist who was famously refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. A few learn of Claudette Colvin, a teenager who was arrested for the same crime earlier that same year in Montgomery, Alabama, and whose testimony in Browder v. The whole world knows Rosa Parks." CAPTION: "How is it the Lord doesn't love the black children?": Claudette Colvin in her Bronx apartment and, below right, as a teenager who stood up against In the history of the Civil Rights Movement, there are well-known heroes, but there are also those whose stories remain untold for too long. One such hero is Claudette Colvin, a brave teenager who, on March 2, 1955, refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama. This act of defiance came nine months before Rosa Parks' similar and more widely known protest. Yet 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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