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Claudette Colvin | Biography, Education, Bus, Rosa Parks, Childhood, & Facts | Britannica

Claudette Colvin | Biography, Education, Bus, Rosa Parks, Childhood, & Facts | Britannica

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.

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January 27, 2025
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Dr. Quinetta Crawford-Bartley
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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