Claudette Colvin
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 Claudette Colvin facts

• 1939) was a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement
• On March 2, 1955, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, nine months prior to Rosa Parks
• Colvin was among the five plaintiffs originally included in the federal court case filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray on February 1, 1956, as Browder v
• Gayle, and she testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case in the United States District Court
• On June 13, 1956, the judges determined that the state and local laws requiring bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional
• The case went to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld their ruling on December 17, 1956
• Colvin was the last witness to testify
• Three days later, the Supreme Court issued an order to Montgomery and the state of Alabama to end bus segregation, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott was called off
• For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort because she was a teenager who was pregnant by a married man
• While, the conventional story is that she was pregnant at the time of the incident, she actually did not become pregnant until later