Claudette Colvin: The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks - BBC
2018年3月10日 · 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...
Claudette Colvin - Wikipedia
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. Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1][2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.
Fifteen‑year‑old Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her ... - HISTORY
2023年1月24日 · Colvin was traveling home from school when the bus' driver ordered her, along with three fellow Black students, to give up their row of seats to a white passenger. Colvin’s friends obliged,...
Montgomery Bus Boycott - National Women's History Museum
In 1955, Claudette Colvin, a high school student in Montgomery, Alabama boarded the city bus. Her ride went without incident, until she was asked to move to the back of the bus and give her seat to a white passenger. She refused replying to the bus driver that it was her “constitutional right” to stay seated. For her refusal, Colvin was ...
The Montgomery Bus Riders Who Came Before Rosa Parks | TIME
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...
The Fifteen-Year-Old Who Refused to Give Up Her Seat on the Bus
2023年12月20日 · On March 2, 1955, she boarded a Capitol Heights bus to commute home after school. Seating was segregated, so Colvin found a seat toward the rear of the bus, one far behind seats reserved...
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin - NPR
2009年3月15日 · 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...
Claudette Colvin, The Civil Rights Hero Who Refused To Give Up …
2021年10月15日 · In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama — nine months before Rosa Parks.
Claudette Colvin | Biography, Education, Bus, Rosa Parks, …
2025年1月2日 · Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) 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 was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
Claudette Colvin: the forgotten teenager who said 'no' before …
On March 2, 1955, Claudette stood her ground, refusing to yield her seat to a white passenger on a city bus, an act that not only sparked her arrest but also ignited a chain reaction in the fight against segregation. But who was Claudette Colvin, really? Why was her courageous act largely forgotten for so long?