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Claudette Colvin (Montgomery, 5 settembre 1939) è un'attivista statunitense. Venne arrestata il 2 marzo 1955 per aver rifiutato di rinunciare al suo posto su un autobus durante la segregazione razziale negli Stati Uniti d'America , nove mesi prima che un analogo episodio rendesse famosa Rosa Parks . [1]
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) 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.
10 mar 2018 · In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did...
Prima di lei, il 2 marzo 1955 un’adolescente nera di 15 anni, Claudette Colvin (1939), al ritorno da scuola si era rifiutata di dare il suo posto a una donna bianca. E per questo motivo era stata trascinata fuori dall’autobus dai poliziotti chiamati dall’autista e gettata in prigione.
16 mag 2024 · Claudette Colvin is an American woman who was arrested as a teenager in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman. Her protest was one of several by Black women challenging segregation on buses in the months before Rosa Parks’s more famous act.
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8 feb 2024 · Claudette Colvin is an activist who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1950s. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before...
On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin boarded a bus home from school. Fifteen years old, the tiny Colvin attended Booker T. Washington High School. She’d been politicized by the mistreatment of her classmate Jeremiah Reeves and had just written a paper on the problems of downtown segregation.
