Claudette Colvin arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to move to the back of the bus 60 years ago today (Mar 2 1955)


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(Wednesday, March 2, 1955; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — Nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested today after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.