It is here, at 658 Dixie Drive, that Colvin, 61, was raised by a great aunt, who was a maid, and great uncle, who was a "yard boy", whom she grew up calling her parents. The problem arose because all the seats on the bus were taken. On June 5, 1956, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama issued a ruling declaring the state of Alabama and Montgomery's laws mandating public bus segregation as unconstitutional. King Hill, Montgomery, is the sepia South. "Move y'all, I want those two seats," he yelled. This was partially a product of the outward face the NAACP was trying to broadcast and partially a product of the women fearing losing their jobs, which were often in the public school system. "You got to get up," they shouted. She fell out of history altogether. The NMAAHC has a section dedicated to Rosa Parks, which Colvin does not want taken away, but her family's goal is to get the historical record right, and for officials to include Colvin's part of history. Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was the first to be arrested in protest of bus segregation in Montgomery. Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. My mother knew I was disappointed with the system and all the injustice we were receiving and she said to me: 'Well, Claudette, you finally did it.'". ", "If the white press got ahold of that information, they would have [had] a field day," said Rosa Parks. That meant most of the dark complexion ones didn't like themselves. After her arrest and late appearance in the court hearing, she was more or less forgotten. [23] She was bailed out by her minister, who told her that she had brought the revolution to Montgomery. The decision in the 1956 case, which had been filed by Fred Gray and Charles D. Langford on behalf of the aforementioned African American women, ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was unconstitutional. Claudette Colvin, Who Was Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Her Bus Seat in 1955, Is Fighting to Clear Her Record The civil rights pioneer pushed back against segregation nine months before Rosa. "However, the black leadership in Montgomery at the time thought that we should wait. The pace of life is so slow and the mood so mellow that local residents look as if they have been wading through molasses in a half-hearted attempt to catch up with the past 50 years. He was drug-addicted and alcoholic and passed away of a cardiac attack in Colvin's apartment. "We walked downtown and my friends and I saw the bus and decided to get on, it was right across the road from Dr Martin Luther King's church," Colvin says. When Colvin's case was appealed to the Montgomery Circuit Court on May 6, 1955, the charges of disturbing the peace and violating the segregation laws were dropped, although her conviction for assaulting a police officer was upheld. [26], Together with Aurelia S. Browder, Susie McDonald, Mary Louise Smith, and Jeanetta Reese, Colvin was one of the five plaintiffs in the court case of Browder v. Gayle. Born in Alabama #33. Either way, he had violated the South's deeply ingrained taboo on interracial sex - Alabama only voted to legalise interracial marriage last month (the state held a referendum at the same time as the ballot for the US presidency), and then only by a 60-40 majority. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). "I remember during Easter one year, I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores, so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size, because we weren't allowed to go in the store to try them on.". Her pastor was called and came to pick her up. Civil Rights Leader #7. She herself didn't talk about it much, but she spoke recently to the BBC. That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person. . Parks stayed put. Much of the writing on civil rights history in Montgomery has focused on the arrest of Parks, another woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus, nine months after Colvin. The driver kept on going but stopped when he reached a junction where a police squad car was waiting. . "Whenever people ask me: 'Why didn't you get up when the bus driver asked you?' The police arrived and convinced a black man sitting behind the two women to move so that Mrs. Hamilton could move back, but Colvin still refused to move. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Colvin was also very dark-skinned, which put her at the bottom of the social pile within the black community - in the pigmentocracy of the South at the time, and even today, while whites discriminated against blacks on grounds of skin colour, the black community discriminated against each other in terms of skin shade. [16] Referring to the segregation on the bus and the white woman: "She couldn't sit in the same row as us because that would mean we were as good as her". "It is he who decides which facts to give the floor and in what order or context. I probably would've examined a dozen more before I got there if Rosa Parks hadn't come along before I found the right one. 83 Year Old #3. [50], In 2022, a biopic of Colvin titled Spark written by Niceole R. Levy and directed by Anthony Mackie was announced. She still has one - a handwritten note from William Harris in Sacramento. Eclipsed by Parks, her act of defiance was largely ignored for many years. Fifty years have passed since campaigners overturned a ban on ethnic minorities working on buses in one British city. The Montgomery bus boycott was then called off after a few months. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Claudette Colvin Popularity . "For a while, there was a real distance between me and Mrs Parks over this. Angry protests erupt over Greek rail disaster, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. She says she expected some abuse from the driver, but nothing more. But they dont say that Columbus discovered America; they should say, for the European people, that is, you know, their discovery of the new world. Unable to find work in Montgomery, Colvin moved to New York in 1958, while her son Raymond remained behind with family. "But according to [the commissioner], she was the first person ever to enter a plea of not guilty to such a charge.". He remarks that if the ACLU had used her act of civil disobedience, rather than that of Rosa Parks' eight months later, to highlight the injustice of segregation, a young preacher named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. may never have attracted national attention, and America probably would not have had his voice for the Civil Rights Movement. The driver looked at the women in his mirror. I was crying," she says. It was an exchange later credited with changing the racial landscape of America. Despite the light sentence, Colvin could not escape the court of public opinion. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were both African Americans who sought the abolition of slavery, Tubman was well known for helping 300 fellow slaves escape slavery using the, Truth was a passionate campaigner who fought for women's rights, best known for her speech, Claudette Colvin spoke to Outlook on the BBC World Service. Astrological Sign: Virgo, Article Title: Claudette Colvin Biography, Author: Biography.com Editors, Website Name: The Biography.com website, Url: https://www.biography.com/activists/claudette-colvin, Publisher: A&E; Television Networks, Last Updated: March 26, 2021, Original Published Date: April 2, 2014, I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. "[21] Colvin recalled, "History kept me stuck to my seat. [11][12], Two days before Colvin's 13th birthday, Delphine died of polio. So we choose the facts to fit the narrative we want to hear. I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. However, some white passengers still refused to sit near a black person. function fbl_init(){ Claudette Colvin: The 15-year-old who came before Rosa Parks 10 March 2018 Alamy By Taylor-Dior Rumble BBC World Service In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by. But somewhere en route they mislaid the truth. "So I went and I testified about the system and I was saying that the system treated us unfairly and I used some of the language that they used when we got taken off the bus.". She said, "They've already called it the Rosa Parks museum, so they've already made up their minds what the story is. "I never swore when I was young," she says. 05 September 1939 - Court trial. Colvin has retired from her job and has been living her life. She also had become pregnant and they thought an unwed mother would attract too much negative attention in a public legal battle. She concentrated her mind on things she had been learning at school. [16][19], When Colvin refused to get up, she was thinking about a school paper she had written that day about the local customs that prohibited blacks from using the dressing rooms in order to try on clothes in department stores. Claudette Colvin (1935- ) Claudette Colvin, a nurse's aide and Civil Rights Movement activist, was born on September 5, 1939, in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a journey not only into history but also mythology. To the exclusively male and predominantly middle-class, church-dominated, local black leadership in Montgomery, she was a fallen woman. Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. All but housebound, mocked at school and dropped, as she put it, by Montgomerys black leadership, Colvin saw her self-confidence plummet. He was so light-skinned (like his father) that people frequently said she had a baby by a white man. Smith was arrested in October 1955, but was also not considered an appropriate candidate for a broader campaign - ED Nixon claimed that her father was a drunkard; Smith insists he was teetotal. "I recited Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee, the characters in Midsummer Night's Dream, the Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm." ", Not so Colvin. However, her story is often silenced. It reads: "The wonderful thing which you have just done makes me feel like a craven coward. In August that year, a 14-year-old boy called Emmet Till had said, "Bye, baby", to a woman at a store in nearby Mississippi, and was fished out of the nearby Tallahatchie river a few days later, dead with a bullet in his skull, his eye gouged out and one side of his forehead crushed. ", The upshot was that Colvin was left in an incredibly vulnerable position. But Colvin told the driver she had paid her fare and that it was her constitutional right to remain where she was. For all her bravado, Colvin was shocked by the extremity of what happened next. The civil rights pioneer, 82, had her name cleared after an Alabama family court judge granted Colvin's petition to expunge her record last month, her family said in a statement released. "[38], Colvin's role has not gone completely unrecognized. Claudette Colvin became a teenage mother in 1956 when she gave birth to a boy named Raymond. The driver wanted all of them to move to the back and stand so that the white passenger could sit. To sustain the boycott, communities organised carpools and the Montgomery's African-American taxi drivers charged only 10 cents - the same price as bus fare - for fellow African Americans. But attorney Gray found it all but impossible to find riders who would potentially risk their lives by attaching their names as plaintiffs. Raymond Colvin died in 1993 in New York of a heart attack, aged 37. After her refusal to give up her seat, Colvin was arrested on several charges, including violating the city's segregation laws. "What's going on with these niggers?" "[28], On May 20, 2018, Congressman Joe Crowley honored Colvin for her lifetime commitment to public service with a Congressional Certificate and an American flag. Two more kicks soon followed. She appreciated, but never embraced, King's strategy of nonviolent resistance, remains a keen supporter of Malcolm X and was constantly frustrated by sexism in the movement. [47], A re-enactment of Colvin's resistance is portrayed in a 2014 episode of the comedy TV series Drunk History about Montgomery, Alabama. Nonetheless, Raymond died at the age of 37, reported Core Online. They never came and discussed it with my parents. ", To complicate matters, a pregnant black woman, Mrs Hamilton, got on and sat next to Colvin. Claudette Colvin's birthstone is Sapphire. "Middle-class blacks looked down on King Hill," says Colvin today. Under the twisted logic of segregation the white woman still couldn't sit down, as then white and black passengers would have been sharing a row of seats - and the whole point was that white passengers were meant to be closer to the front. She shops with her workmates and watches action movies on video. The United States District Court ruled the state of Alabama and Montgomery's bus segregation laws were unconstitutional. [49], The Little-Known Heroes: Claudette Colvin, a children's picture book by Kaushay and Spencer Ford, was published in 2021. She told me to let Rosa be the one: white people aren't going to bother Rosa, they like her". The case went to the United States Supreme Court on appeal by the state, and it upheld the district court's ruling on November 13, 1956. A sanitation worker, Mr Harris, got up, gave her his seat and got off the bus. "So did the teachers, too. She was fingerprinted, denied a phone call and locked into a cell. By then I didnt have much time for celebrating anyway. They forced her into the back of a squad car, one officer jumping in after her. Colvin was initially charged with disturbing the peace, violating the segregation laws, and battering and assaulting a police officer. From "high-yellas" to "coal-coloureds", it is a tension steeped not only in language but in the arts, from Harlem Renaissance novelist Nella Larsen's book, Passing, to Spike Lee's film, School Daze. "It's interesting that Claudette Colvin was not in the group, and rarely, if ever, rode a bus again in Montgomery," wrote Frank Sikora, an Alabama-based academic and author. She resisted bus segregation nine months before Rosa Parks, . Until recently, none of her workmates knew anything of her pioneering role in the civil rights movement. I didn't want to discuss it with them," she says. It wasn't a bad area, but it had a reputation." Almost nine months after Colvins bus protest, she heard news reports that Parks, a 42-year-old seamstress, had likewise been arrested for a bus seating protest. All I could do is cry. "I was really afraid, because you just didn't know what white people might do at that time," says Colvin. "They did think I was nutty and crazy.". It is time for President Obama to award Colvin the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor, to recognize her sacrifice and passionate dedication to social justice. History had me glued to the seat.. She sat down in the front of the bus and refused to move on her own will when asked. "I was really afraid, because you just didn't know what white people might do at that time," Colvin later said. And, like the pregnant Mrs Hamilton, many African-Americans refused to tolerate the indignity of the South's racist laws in silence. "When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack. [20] In a later interview, she said: "We couldn't try on clothes. ", Nonetheless, the shock waves of her defiance had reverberated throughout Montgomery and beyond. Betty Shabbaz, the widow of Malcolm X, was one of them. This much we know. They had threatened to throw her out of the Booker T Washington school for wearing her hair in plaits. He was born on March 3, 1931, in Mound City, S.D., the son of Alfred Gunderson and Verna Johnson Gunderson. The driver, James Blake, turned around and ordered the black passengers to go to the back of the bus, so that the whites could take their places. It is the story of Claudette Colvin, who was 15 when she waged her brave protest nine months before Parks did and has spent an eternity in Parkss shadow. None of them spoke to me; they didn't see if I was okay. In New York, Colvin gave birth to another son, Randy. They felt she had the maturity to handle being at the center of potential controversy. So he said, 'If you are not going to get up, I will get a policeman.'" [16] On March 2, 1955, she was returning home from school. By Monday, the day the boycott began, Colvin had already been airbrushed from the official version of events. [2] Price testified for Colvin, who was tried in juvenile court. He was . ", They took her to City Hall, where she was charged with misconduct, resisting arrest and violating the city segregation laws. If the bus became so crowded that all the "white seats" in the front of the bus were filled until white people were standing, any African Americans were supposed to get up from nearby seats to make room for whites, move further to the back, and stand in the aisle if there were no free seats in that section. "He asked us both to get up. In court, Colvin opposed the segregation law by declaring herself not guilty. Her casting as the prim, ageing, guileless seamstress with her hair in a bun who just happened to be in the wrong place at the right time denied her track record of militancy and feminism. "They said they didn't want to use a pregnant teenager because it would be controversial and the people would talk about the pregnancy more than the boycott," Colvin says. She decided on that day that she wasn't going to move. Two police officers arrived and pulled her from her seat. "[4][5] Colvin's case was dropped by civil rights campaigners because Colvin was unmarried and pregnant during the proceedings. I can still vividly hear the click of those keys. Name: Claudette Colvin Birth Year: 1939 Birth date: September 5, 1939 Birth State: Alabama Birth City: Montgomery Birth Country: United States Gender: Female Best Known For: Claudette Colvin is. Today their boycott, modelled on the one in Montgomery, is largely forgotten - but it was a milestone in achieving equality. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was unconstitutional. "I will take you off," said the policeman, then he kicked her. You can't sugarcoat it. Parks became one of Time Magazine's 100 most important people of the 20th century . He could not bring himself to chide Mrs Hamilton in her condition, but he could not allow her to stay where she was and flout the law as he understood it, either. "Never. [27] During the court case, Colvin described her arrest: "I kept saying, 'He has no civil right this is my constitutional right you have no right to do this.' Soon afterwards, on 5 December, 40,000 African-American bus passengers boycotted the system and that afternoon, black leaders met to form the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), electing a young pastor, Martin Luther King Jr, as their president. "When ED Nixon and the Women's Political Council of Montgomery recognised that you could be that hero, you met the challenge and changed our lives forever. The bus driver had the authority to assign the seats, so when more white passengers got on the bus, he asked for the seats.". Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist of African descent. 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. "I would sit in the back and no one would even know I was there. It was believed that a venomous snake would die if placed in a vessel made of sapphire. She works the night shift and sleeps "when the sleep falls on her" during the day. Colvin was not invited officially for the formal dedication of the museum, which opened to the public in September 2016. It was not your tired feet, but your strength of character and resolve that inspired us." The Supreme Court summarily affirmed the District Court decision on November 13, 1956. After Colvin was released from prison, there were fears that her home would be attacked. [44], Former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove memorialized Colvin in her poem "Claudette Colvin Goes To Work",[45] published in her 1999 book On the Bus with Rosa Parks; folk singer John McCutcheon turned this poem into a song, which was first publicly performed in Charlottesville, Virginia's Paramount Theater in 2006. She turns, watches, wipes, feeds and washes the elderly patients and offers them a gentle, consoling word when they become disoriented. The leaders in the Civil Rights Movement tried to keep up appearances and make the "most appealing" protesters the most seen. She prayed furiously as they sped out, with the cop leering over her, guessing at her bra size. With funding from church donations and activities organized by the chapter, Colvin had her day in court. In 1969, years after moving to NYC, she acquired a job working as a Nurse's aide at a Nursing home. Complexity, with all its nuances and shaded realities, is a messy business. He contacted Montgomery Councilmen Charles Jinright and Tracy Larkin, and in 2017, the Council passed a resolution for a proclamation honoring Colvin. Video1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. It was a case of 'bourgey' blacks looking down on the working-class blacks. In a letter published shortly before Shabbaz's death, she wrote to Parks with both praise and perspective: "'Standing up' was not even being the first to protest that indignity. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks' more famous protest. Disturbing the peace, violating the segregation laws have much time for celebrating.. 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