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Claudette Colvin

1939 - Today

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Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. 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. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in the first federal court case filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray on February 1, 1956, as Browder v. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claudette Colvin is the 427th most popular social activist (down from 386th in 2019), the 5,884th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,722nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Claudette Colvin ranks 427 out of 840. Before her are Marina Oswald Porter, Evelyn Mase, Huey P. Newton, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Aruna Asaf Ali, and Gulnara Karimova. After her are Leo Deutsch, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Inge Scholl, Miroslav Tyrš, Olga Lepeshinskaya, and Chen Qimei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Claudette Colvin ranks 310. Before her are Robert Darnton, Janet Suzman, Peter Revson, Gila Almagor, James Burton, and Sushil Koirala. After her are Paolo Salvati, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Rosie Reyes, Giorgio Gaber, Sid Haig, and Joseph Raz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 5,884 out of 20,380. Before her are Margo Martindale (1951), Shawn Fonteno (1976), Joe Dallesandro (1948), Zelda Rubinstein (1933), Chuck Hagel (1946), and George Huntington (1850). After her are Rick Aviles (1952), Betty Robinson (1911), Ona Munson (1903), Maxwell Perkins (1884), George Nichols (1864), and Eric S. Raymond (1957).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 55. Before her are Black Elk (1863), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Alice Paul (1885), Lester R. Brown (1934), Grace Sherwood (1660), and Huey P. Newton (1942). After her are Nat Turner (1800), Afeni Shakur (1947), Otto Warmbier (1994), Anna Louise Strong (1885), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), and Phyllis Schlafly (1924).

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