How Claudette Colvin helped spark America's Civil Rights Movement at the age of 15. ... "The NAACP had come back to me and my mother said: 'Claudette, they must really need you, ...

Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated&nbsp ...

Claudette Colvin's 1955 arrest record for refusing to give up bus seat to white person expunged. Brian Lyman. ... Colvin, who knew Parks through the NAACP youth group, ...

Since Colvin was a pregnant teenager, there were concerns she would be viewed less sympathetically than Parks, a working woman and secretary of the NAACP who was well known and respected. Thus ...

Claudette Colvin was a teenager on March 2, ... but the Montgomery NAACP — which changed its name to the Montgomery Improvement Association — decided not to advocate on Colvin’s behalf.

Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her ...

Claudette Colvin, 82, ... Colvin told NPR that the NAACP and other black organizations believed Parks would be a better civil rights icon than her in 1955 because Parks “was an adult. ...

Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, ...

Claudette Colvin, 82, ... Parks, a 42-year-old seamstress and activist with the NAACP, gained worldwide notice after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955.

Claudette Colvin (b. 1939) was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a ...

Colvin was 15 when she refused to surrender her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Her attorney plans to file documents Tuesday to seal, destroy and erase records of the case.

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.