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    Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March...
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  • arrest of 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested...
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  • Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice is a 2009 young adult nonfiction book by Phillip Hoose, recounting the experiences of Claudette Colvin in Montgomery...
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    15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the bus", Newsweek. Adler, Margot. Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin. NPR. March...
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  • Richard Rives. The main plaintiffs in the case were Aurelia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith. Jeanetta Reese had originally...
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  • Canadian politician Claudette Bryanston, English theatre director Claudette Colbert (1903–1996), American actress Claudette Colvin (born 1939), American...
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  • time this happened – for example, Parks was inspired by 15-year-old Claudette Colvin doing the same thing nine months earlier – but the Parks act of civil...
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    members of the ultimately successful Browder v. Gayle 1956 lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who were arrested...
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  • Showtime as Sasha Obama. In January 2022, Sidney was tapped to play Claudette Colvin in the drama film Spark, directed by Anthony Mackie, which is his directorial...
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    free to electrocute." The governor failed to commute his sentence. Claudette Colvin was a younger classmate of Reeves and among those very upset about...
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    (2004), and the National Book Award, Young People's Literature, for Claudette Colvin (2009). Hoose was born in South Bend, Indiana, grew up in the Indiana...
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  • arrest of Rosa Parks in the same city and a month after the arrest of Claudette Colvin, she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider...
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    'King Richard's Saniyya Sidney To Star As Unsung Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 20, 2022...
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    as a young Alabama attorney (and solo practitioner), Gray defended Claudette Colvin and later Rosa Parks, who were charged with disorderly conduct for...
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  • their own individual challenges. For instance, 15-year-old student Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger...
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  • Hamilton-Reeves said Claudette is a homage to Claudette Colvin while Forest references they grew up in a forest. In July 2022, Forest Claudette released the single...
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    victims of a "credit squeeze" by the White Citizens' Councils. After Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus...
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    Kathleen Cleaver Charles E. Cobb Jr. Annie Lee Cooper Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Jonathan Daniels Abraham Lincoln Davis Angela Davis Joseph...
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  • Clare Colvin, British writer, daughter of Ian Colvin Claudette Colvin (born 1939), American activist for African American rights D. Leigh Colvin (1880–1959)...
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  • segregation. Smith was one of five plaintiffs, including Aurelia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie McDonald, and Jeanetta Reese. (Reese left the case that month...
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  • ceremony took place in April 2022. Robinson was a member of The Links. Claudette Colvin List of civil rights leaders Mazurkiewicz, Margaret (2012-01-01). Contemporary...
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  • Kathleen Cleaver Charles E. Cobb Jr. Annie Lee Cooper Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Jonathan Daniels Abraham Lincoln Davis Angela Davis Joseph...
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  • jail and fines who attend school with blacks. March 2 – 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white woman, eventually...
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  • Julian Amber Ruffin on Claudette Colvin Morgan Murphy on Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling Cast: Mariah Wilson as Claudette Colvin Lisa Bonet as Rosa Parks...
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    Kathleen Cleaver Charles E. Cobb Jr. Annie Lee Cooper Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Jonathan Daniels Abraham Lincoln Davis Angela Davis Joseph...
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    preaching in Montgomery and the surrounding region. In March 1955, Claudette Colvin—a fifteen-year-old black schoolgirl in Montgomery—refused to give up...
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  • Blanche Bruce Ralph Bunche George Washington Carver Shirley Chisholm Claudette Colvin Frederick Douglass W. E. B. Du Bois Medgar Evers James Farmer Henry...
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    States SNCC and SCLC activist and official, strategist, organizer Claudette Colvin 1939  United States Montgomery bus boycott pioneer, independent activist...
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    Kathleen Cleaver Charles E. Cobb Jr. Annie Lee Cooper Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Jonathan Daniels Abraham Lincoln Davis Angela Davis Joseph...
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    Kathleen Cleaver Charles E. Cobb Jr. Annie Lee Cooper Dorothy Cotton Claudette Colvin Vernon Dahmer Jonathan Daniels Abraham Lincoln Davis Angela Davis Joseph...
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