Claudette+Colvin



Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old that attended Booker T. Washington High School and in 1955 refused to move for a white man riding on the bus. In this time, blacks were expected to sit in the back of the bus or to stand up when the bus got crowded. When a white man came on the bus, Colvin was asked to move for him. She refused to move and was arrested. She went to court and they ruled bus segregation unconstitutional. This was not as well known and the new law did not catch on. Colvin was a spark for Rosa Parks, what she did caught on.

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