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About Claudette Colvin
Originally named Claudette Austin and famously known as Claudette Colvin, is an American activist, former nurse aide, and pioneer of the “1950s civil rights movement.” Her arrest on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, paved the way for the rigorous “1955 Montgomery bus boycott.”
Background & Education
She was born in Montgomery, Alabama and attended Booker T. Washington High School. She actively participated in the NAACP Youth Council.
Bus Incident & End of bus Segregation
On March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Colvin at age 15 was arrested on a bus while returning home from her high school. The arrest was due to her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white woman on the crowded segregated bus she boarded. This incident was the main issue that sparked the famously known efforts of Rosa Parks of the NAACP to embark on the “1955 Montgomery bus boycott.”
In 1956, she was part of the plaintiffs in attorney Fred Grey’s first federal court case, “Browder v. Gayle,” which challenged bus segregation in Alabama.
However, for many years, her pioneering efforts to end bus segregation were not publicized because she was pregnant and unmarried during the court’s proceedings, and the black leaders thought she might be labeled as a “bad girl,” and their case might fall.
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F.A.Q. about Claudette Colvin
When is her birthday?
Claudette Colvin's birthday is on September 5, 1939.
In how many days is her birthday?
Claudette's birthday is in 134 days
How old is she?
She is 84 years old.
Where is Claudette from?
She was born in Alabama, U.S..