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Claudette Colvin was a teenage schoolgirl who was the first person arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus, in Montgomery Alabama.
The Colvin bus incident happened on March 2, 1955 – nine months prior to the more famous protest by Rosa Parks. Colvin had written a school essay on segregation in Alabama, earlier that day. When a white woman boarded the bus, Colvin decided there and then that she wasn’t going to move. She was handcuffed, arrested and physically removed from the bus.
It is widely accepted that Colvin’s bus protest was the spark that begun the wider bus boycott movement, although Colvin herself did not receive any publicity. Black organisations and protest groups promoted the Rosa Parks incident as a more suitable campaign, as Parks was a respectable adult. Colvin was a teenager, pregnant and unmarried.
The Colvin bus incident happened on March 2, 1955 – nine months prior to the more famous protest by Rosa Parks. Colvin had written a school essay on segregation in Alabama, earlier that day. When a white woman boarded the bus, Colvin decided there and then that she wasn’t going to move. She was handcuffed, arrested and physically removed from the bus.
It is widely accepted that Colvin’s bus protest was the spark that begun the wider bus boycott movement, although Colvin herself did not receive any publicity. Black organisations and protest groups promoted the Rosa Parks incident as a more suitable campaign, as Parks was a respectable adult. Colvin was a teenager, pregnant and unmarried.
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