@blkhiststudies : Claudette Colvin was 15 yrs old when she was arrested for resisting bus segregation in #Montgomery, Alabama. Her case preceded Rosa Parks’s arrest by 9 months. She was one of 4 plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the 1956 court case that ordered the desegregation of buses in Alabama. • TwiCopy

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Claudette Colvin was 15 yrs old when she was arrested for resisting bus segregation in #Montgomery, Alabama. Her case preceded Rosa Parks’s arrest by 9 months. She was one of 4 plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the 1956 court case that ordered the desegregation of buses in Alabama.