Claudette Colvin
By: Faith Harrison -6th Period
Background Info
Claudette Colvin is an African American woman who was the primary start of the Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus. This sparked Rosa Park's act that got more publicized.
Claudette Colvin on the bus.
Claudette Colvin was only 15 when she refused to give up her seat on the bus, to a white woman. She was ready to fight back against segregation.
Claudette Colvin getting arrested.
Colvin was arrested for several charges, like violating the city's segregation laws.
Claudette Colvin's Trial.
Claudette Colvin's trial brought more publicity to her act against segregation, cause more people to act like Rosa Parks.
Claudette Colvin
Civil Disobedience
Claudette Colvin was one of the sparks of segregation, she rebelled against the government to act out. Henry David Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience, and one of his points was revolution. "All men recongnize the right of revolution: that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable". Colvin refused to move out of her seat and was a spark in the revolution of the Civil Rights Movement.