Claudette Colvin: US civil rights pioneer wants record cleared

BBC News

27 Oct 2021 0 shares 1 views

BBC News

Published 27 Oct 2021

Claudette Colvin was just 15 in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white person.

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin aims to clear 1955 arrest record for refusing to surrender her bus seat

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Claudette Colvin was arrested at 15 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months..

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