Useful Links
Claudette Colvin Biography
https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/claudette-colvin/
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. She wants her 1955 arrest record expunged.
Colvin was 15 when she refused to surrender her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Her attorney plans to file documents Tuesday to seal, destroy and erase records of the case.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin-she-wants-her-1955-n1282348
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin
Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks
It was a spring afternoon in 1955 when a teenager’s spontaneous act of defiance changed US history. Why did it take 40 years for her to get any credit?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/25/claudette-colvin-the-woman-who-refused-to-give-up-her-bus-seat-nine-months-before-rosa-parks
A Recent Interview with Colvin
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/claudette-colvin-explains-her-role-in-the-civil-rights-movement
March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/claudette-colvin/
Transportation Protests: 1841 to 1992
https://www.civilrightsteaching.org/desegregation/transportation-protests
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
By. Philip Hoose
based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others. It can be used to bring the story of Colvin and the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott to middle school readers.
https://bookshop.org/books/claudette-colvin-twice-toward-justice-9780606231886/9780312661052
https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/claudette-colvin/
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. She wants her 1955 arrest record expunged.
Colvin was 15 when she refused to surrender her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Her attorney plans to file documents Tuesday to seal, destroy and erase records of the case.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin-she-wants-her-1955-n1282348
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin
Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks
It was a spring afternoon in 1955 when a teenager’s spontaneous act of defiance changed US history. Why did it take 40 years for her to get any credit?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/25/claudette-colvin-the-woman-who-refused-to-give-up-her-bus-seat-nine-months-before-rosa-parks
A Recent Interview with Colvin
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/claudette-colvin-explains-her-role-in-the-civil-rights-movement
March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/claudette-colvin/
Transportation Protests: 1841 to 1992
https://www.civilrightsteaching.org/desegregation/transportation-protests
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
By. Philip Hoose
based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others. It can be used to bring the story of Colvin and the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott to middle school readers.
https://bookshop.org/books/claudette-colvin-twice-toward-justice-9780606231886/9780312661052
Primary Sources
Fingerprint Card of Claudette Colvin
https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/fingerprints-colvin
https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/fingerprints-colvin