Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist who, before Colvin was born on September 5, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama. Growing up in one of Montgomery's poorer neighborhoods, Colvin studied hard in school. 1951- 22nd Amendment was put into place, limiting the presidential term of office. She also had become pregnant and they thought an unwed mother would attract too much negative attention in a public legal battle. She was an unmarried teenager at the time, and was reportedly impregnated by a married man.Colvin was born September 5, 1939. Joseph Rembert said, “If nobody did anything for Claudette Colvin in the past why don’t we do something for her right now?” He reached out to Montgomery Councilmen Charles Jinright and Tracy Larkin to make it happen. Colvin was also a member of the NAACP Youth Council, where she formed a close relationship with her mentor, Rosa Parks.In 1955, Colvin was a student at the segregated If the bus became so crowded that all the "white seats" in the front of the bus were filled until white people were standing, any African Americans were supposed to get up from nearby seats to make room for whites, move further to the back, and stand in the aisle if there were no free seats in that section. Her parents, Mary Jane Gadson and C.P. She also attended Booker T. Washington HighSchool. While Parks has been heralded as a civil rights heroine, Colvin's story has received little notice. "I was really afraid, because you just didn't know what white people might do at that time," Colvin later said. She earned mostly As in her classes and aspired to become president one day. "In an interview, Colvin said,
She retired in 2004.Much of the writing on civil rights history in Montgomery has focused on the arrest of Parks, another woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus, nine months after Colvin. In the south, male ministers made up the overwhelming majority of leaders. So, you know, I think you compare history, like—most historians say Columbus discovered America, and it was already populated. In 2016, the Smithsonian Institution and its “All we want is the truth, why does history fail to get it right?” Colvin's sister, Gloria Laster, said. Her father worked as a lawnmower, and her mother was a maid so meeting the financial family standards was hard. Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a retired American nurse aide who was a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement.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 … I think that history only has room enough for certain—you know, how many icons can you choose? The discussions in the black community began to focus on black enterprise rather than integration, although national civil rights legislation did not pass until 1964 and 1965. "The bus was getting crowded, and I remember the bus driver looking through the rear view mirror asking her [Colvin] to get up for the white woman, which she didn't," said Annie Larkins Price, a classmate of Colvin.