Guardian Chronicle
BUILDING BRIDGES TO LAW ENFORCEMENT,
COMMUNITY, YOUTH & YOU
Photos featured in NYC Television and Print Media: The New York Beacon News, The Chief Leader, The Bronx Times, The Amsterdam News, COBA & CCA Union News Papers,, & 2008-American Corrections by Todd R. Clear, George E. Cole, & Michael D. Reisig 8th Edition- page 558 Ralph E. Smith- Publisher HomePage
Story Produced by Renee E. White Smith
Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African American civil rights movement. She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months. The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, decided by the U.S. District Court, ended bus segregation in Alabama.
Colvin's pioneering effort was not publicized for long by Montgomery's black leaders because she was a teenager. |