claudette colvin

Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin 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... Wikipedia

Born: Claudette Austin, September 5, 1939, Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
Age: 86 years
Occupation: Civil rights activist, nurse aide
Years active: 1969–2004 (as nurse aide)
Era: Civil rights movement (1954–1968)
Known for: Arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus, nine months before the similar Rosa Parks incident.
Children: 2
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Claudette Colvin

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