Claudette Colvin by ANIJAH LEE https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md This is a narrative of Claudette Colvin en-us 2017-10-24 14:58:40 UTC 2025-03-01 02:25:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Claudette Colvin was born in Montgomery,Alabama, September 5, 1939. She attended a high school in Alabama called Booker T. Washington. s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200042754 2017-10-24 15:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200042754 Claudette was a pioneer of the civil rights movement. She refused to give up her seat on the bus in a segregated society on March 2, 1955. Even though she did this before Rosa Parks they didn't acknowledge it because she was underage & had gotten pregnant. s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200053882 2017-10-24 15:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200053882 At the time when Colvin was forced to go give her seat on the bus & she refused, she stated that "The spirit of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth was in me. I didn't get up." This led her to get dragged off the bus, charged with disorderly conduct, violating the segregation ordinance, assault and battery(clawing officer), and thrown in a jail cell until her minister and mother came with her bail. s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200860346 2017-10-26 15:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200860346 In 1956 on May 11, She testified in a court hearing about her situation on the bus. Later on that year she gave birth to her son Raymond. In his older days he joined the US army and later on in life he became a statistic of an overdose drug attic at the age of 37. s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200879619 2017-10-26 15:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/200879619 s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201758957 2017-10-30 15:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201758957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3NvXzFOb6w s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201760042 This is a link to inform you a little about claudette situation. ]]> 2017-10-30 15:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201760042 s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201764936 2017-10-30 15:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201764936 "I feel very, very proud of what I did. I do feel like what I did was a spark and it caught on."[21] "I'm not disappointed," Colvin said. "Let the people know Rosa Parks was the right person for the boycott. But also let them know that the attorneys took four other women to the Supreme Court to challenge the law that led to the end of segregation." stated Claudette. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin) s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201766735 2017-10-30 15:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201766735 Claudette was adopted by Q. P. Colvin and Mary Anne Colvin. Her mother was a maid and her father mowed lawns. Her first experience in segregation at the age of 4 is when her and her mom was at a store and she decided to touch hands to compare them with a white boy and her mom slapped her in the face. s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201775513 2017-10-30 15:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201775513 CLAUDETTE COLVIN "Before Rosa Parks" s8593396 https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201780495 2017-10-30 15:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/s8593396/noo4cvowc1md/wish/201780495