Claudette Colvin Quotes


When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.


Citations

Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

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Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin
  • Born: September 5, 1939
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Civil Rights Activist, Nurse Aide

Claudette Colvin is a 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. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.