The juvenile record of Claudette Colvin was expunged 66 years after her arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus. ... her son Randy, an accountant and educator ...

Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court system is overdue.

We know Claudette Colvin was yanked off that bus, arrested, jailed, and convicted. ... Psalms 1 and 32 and praying, had to flee her hometown for New York, a single mother with a son, ...

Colvin’s son Raymond died in 1993. A second son, Randy, born in 1960, ... Claudette Colvin, who at 15 refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, deserves our gratitude.

Ms. Colvin used to spend the night at her house and once served as a mannequin for a wedding dress the seamstress was making. When Claudette was arrested, Ms. Parks raised money for her legal defense.

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice. "I'm ...

Montgomery Bus Boycott activist Claudette Colvin remembers her stand against injustice When she was 15, she was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white woman 9 months before Rosa Parks.

Claudette Colvin was 15 in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — 9 months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance. Colvin was arrested and charged.

Claudette Colvin has spent most of her 82 years as a convicted juvenile delinquent, who would go on to college, work as a nurse's aid and raise two sons. As a teenager, she was arrested in 1955 ...

Claudette Colvin, now 82, was arrested when she was 15 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery. The incident came nine months before Rosa Parks' far more famous ...