Before Rosa Parks

Claudette Colvin

[March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks]

Claudette Colvin, aged 13, in 1953. On March 2, 1955, she was the
first person arrested for  resisting bus racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.
[Author: The Visibility Project, Claudette Colvin, Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons]

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Claudette Colvin: The Original Rosa Parks – [Min: 2:29]

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