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Claudette Colvin (* 5. September 1939 in Birmingham, Alabama) ist eine der Vorreiterinnen der US-amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung von 1955 bis 1968. Als 15-Jährige widersetzte sie sich am 2. März 1955 der damaligen Rassentrennung in öffentlichen Bussen in Alabama, neun Monate vor der bekannteren Bürgerrechtlerin Rosa Parks.
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
16. Mai 2024 · Claudette Colvin 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’s more famous act.
8. Feb. 2024 · Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist who, before Rosa Parks, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle,...
10. März 2018 · 10 March 2018. By Taylor-Dior Rumble,BBC World Service. Alamy. 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...
Rosa Parks was arrested in December 1955. Nine months earlier, 15 year old Claudette Colvin was arrested for the exact same thing in Montgomery, Alabama. Discover more about her on womenshistory.org.
Claudette Colvin | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Courtesy of Alean Bowser. Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin. listen. 6:16. © 2009 npr. On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin boarded a bus home from school. Fifteen years old, the tiny Colvin attended Booker T. Washington High School.
