Going to a segregated school had one advantage ... case turned on the testimony of four plaintiffs, one of whom was Claudette Colvin. "The NAACP had come back to me and my mother said: 'Claudette ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Mattie Kahn talked about Claudette Colvin's impact during the Civil Rights Movement, notably her arrest in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama ...

In March 1955, Claudette Colvin was on her way home from school when she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This was against Alabama’s state laws.