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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.
10. März 2018 · 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 Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did...
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.
On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin boarded a bus home from school. Fifteen years old, the tiny Colvin attended Booker T. Washington High School. She’d been politicized by the mistreatment of her classmate Jeremiah Reeves and had just written a paper on the problems of downtown segregation.
8. Feb. 2024 · Claudette Colvin is an activist who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1950s. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before...
17. Dez. 2021 · 66 Jahre lang stand Claudette Colvin im Strafregister. Das Vergehen der schwarzen US-Bürgerin: Sie hatte sich geweigert, die angeordnete "Rassentrennung" zu befolgen. Nun hat sich die Justiz...
