Now a 69-year-old retiree, Colvin lives in the Bronx. Most of the women were quietly fined, and no one heard much more.Ĭolvin was the first to really challenge the law. Most people know about Parks and the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that began in 1955, but few know that there were a number of women who refused to give up their seats on the same bus system. Two police officers handcuffed and arrested her.Ĭourtesy of Birmingham Public Library Department of Archives and Manuscriptsįew people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person - nine months before Rosa Parks did the very same thing. When the driver of the segregated bus, like the one shown above, ordered Colvin to get up, she refused, saying she'd paid her fare and it was her constitutional right.
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