Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

5 September 1939

Born on the same birth date (5 September 1939): George Lazenby • George Tremlett • John Stewart (musician) • William Devane

Born on the same birth day (5 September): Adam Hollioake • Al Stewart • Ben Youngs • Bob Katter Sr. • Carice van Houten • Date Masamune • Felipe Caicedo • Gail Kubik • Helen Creighton • Jesse James • Johann Christian Bach • José María of Manila • Justiniano Montano • Louis XIV • Minoru Fujita • Paul Breitner • Peter IV of Aragon • Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan • Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland • Werner Erhard • William Dampier • William Devane

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