![]() ![]() She told Hoose that she was aware of the rule that Blacks did not have to give up their seats if the bus was filled. ![]() The bus driver told Colvin and her three classmates, “I need those seats,” Phillip Hoose wrote in the award-winning " Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice."Ĭolvin’s classmates quickly surrendered their seats, but Colvin refused to move. The bus became crowded, with Black and white passengers forced to stand. On a warm spring day on March 2, 1955, a then-15-year-old Colvin was riding the bus home from school with her classmates in Montgomery, Alabama. Marshal, Hits The New York Stage In A Play Off-Broadway RELATED: The Story Of Bass Reeves, The Pioneering Black U.S. “I did play a significant role but there were so many other people ahead of me, and so many people who have never been recognized.” “I don’t see myself as a hero because I’m just an average woman,” the now 83-year-old Colvin told. ![]() Nearly 70 years ago, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, a 15-year-old Claudette Colvin staged a similar protest - but it would be decades before much of the world learned of her heroic actions. ![]()
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