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Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to move
Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. The post ...
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Claudette Colvin, renowned civil rights activist who refused to give up bus seat to White woman, dies aged 86
Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks, is dead ...
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Claudette Colvin, civil rights hero behind bus desegregation, dead at 86
Claudette Colvin, the civil rights pioneer whose quiet act of defiance helped dismantle segregation on Montgomery buses, died ...
Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent: ...
Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for not giving up her bus seat to a white person, nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same thing. Monday, Colvin was in Buffalo commemorating the ...
A Boyds, Maryland, school named for the Howard University graduate and educator who pushed to improve schools for Black children during segregation has been added to Montgomery County’s master plan ...
On Dec. 2, 1955, the Montgomery Advertiser published a short crime item at the bottom of page 9 under the headline "Negro Jailed Here for 'Overlooking' Bus Segregation." The five-paragraph account of ...
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