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Claudette Colvin, an 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested as a teen for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, wants to have her records ...
Around the same time Rosa Parks famously protested segregation by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, a teenager named Claudette Colvin went to jail in Montgomery, Ala., for doing ...
In Hoose’s young adult book, “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,” the 15-year-old Colvin’s story of determination to stand up for her “constitutional rights” on the bus is finally ...