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Week in History: Nine months before Rosa Parks, police arrested Claudette Colvin for refusing to give up her bus seat.

The bus started to fill up on that warm and muggy afternoon of March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., as Claudette Colvin and a group of fellow Black classmates from racially segregated Booker T. Washington High School stepped aboard. Colvin, then 15, and her friends took seats in the rear of the bus—the area where Black passengers were legally allowed to sit, away from white customers—and were chatting when the driver asked them to move so that a white woman could sit down, as there was no

How Claudette Colvin helped spark America's Civil Rights Movement at the age of 15.

Claudette Colvin was 15 when she was arrested and booked for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus, this was 9mo before Rosa Parks fid the same

The freedom fighter is seeking to get her conviction expunged almost 60 years later.

So many of the social life's aspects have changed for women in the years. Starting with the right for education and ending with gender equality - all of this didn't happen overnight, and many badass women had to sacrifice their personal lives for a greater cause. Women's Equality Day celebrated on August 26th in the US, commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in…

A Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Claudette Colvin Sixty-five years ago on an Alabama bus fifteen year old Claudette Colvin (a black teenager in the 1950's) refused to give her seat to a white woman.

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Book — Non-fiction. By Phillip Hoose. 2010. 160 pages. The story of Claudette Colvin, a teenager who refused to give up her seat in the year leading up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.