A Montgomery Juvenile Court judge has expunged Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest for challenging segregation on the city's bus lines, an act that preceded Rosa Parks' similar challenge by nine months.

A Montgomery Juvenile Court judge has expunged Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest for challenging segregation on the city's bus lines, an act that preceded Rosa Parks' similar challenge by nine months.

Colvin’s legal team told CNN it plans to file paperwork to have the now-82-year-old woman’s 1955 arrest record cleared. Claudette Colvin, who was arrested at the age of 15 for refusing to give up her ...

Claudette Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Public transportation was segregated in the city and Colvin was told ...

ABILENE, Texas — Many know the story of Rosa Parks, but few know the story of Claudette Colvin. She was born Claudette Austin, on September 5th, 1939, in Montgomery Alabama. In school, she became a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Months before a Black seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus, thus etching her name into the history books, there was another ...

Claudette Colvin's journey from Montgomery student to unsung civil rights hero is being turned into a movie under "Captain America" actor and first-time director Anthony Mackie. As first reported by ...

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A judge in Montgomery, Alabama has expunged the juvenile court record of Claudette Colvin, the Black woman who famously refused to let a white person take her city bus seat on March 2, 1955 — nine ...

Colvin refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. A judge in Montgomery, Alabama has expunged the juvenile court record of Claudette Colvin, the Black woman who ...

The juvenile court records of Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused in 1955 to give up her seat to a White person on an Alabama bus, have been sealed, destroyed and expunged following a ...