Claudette Colvin (born 1940) is a black woman from Alabama. On March 2, 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person, in violation of local law. Her arrest preceded civil rights activist Rosa Parks' (on December 1, 1955) by nine months.

On May 11, 1956, Colvin testified in a Montgomery federal court hearing about her actions on the bus (Browder v. Gayle)...

See also

• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Mary Louise Smith

External links

• She Had A Dream (http://www.kudzumonthly.com/kudzu/apr02/Dream.html)

• Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Preface) (http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/burns_daybreak.html)

• Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Excerpt) (http://print.google.com/print/doc?isbn=0807823600)

• BROWDER v. GAYLE: The Women Before Rosa Parks (http://www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/act/activity.jsp?cid=388)