What is Claudette Colvin?
'''Claudette Colvin''' was born on September 5, 1939, in [[Birmingham, Alabama]].<ref name=Bio>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/claudette-colvin-11378 |title=Claudette Colvin Biography |publisher=Bio/ A&E Television Networks, LLC. |access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> She grew up in [[Montgomery, Alabama]]. Colvin was [[arrest]]ed on March 2, 1955, for not giving up her seat to a white woman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/27/389563788/before-rosa-parks-a-teenager-defied-segregation-on-an-alabama-bus |title=Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus |date=2 March 2015 |publisher=NPR |access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> She was 15 years old when this happened. Colvin was put on [[trial]] on several [[Indictment|charges]] including violating the [[segregation]] ordinance.<ref name=Bio/> The court found her guilty. She was beaten up and ridiculed by white people after the incident. Colvin was placed on [[wikt:probation|probation]]. The leader of the church she attended, Reverend Johnson bailed her out. When she got back home everyone was so proud of her. In 1956, about one year after Colvin refused to give up her seat, her lawyer, Fred Gray, filed the [[Landmark decision|landmark]] federal lawsuit: [[Rosa_Parks#Browder_v._Gayle|Browder v Gayle]].<ref>Anne Emanuel, ''Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution'' (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011), pp. 169–172</ref> This case stopped [[Racial segregation|segregation]] on [[Public transport|public transportation]] in Montgomery Alabama. Claudette’s incident was before [[Rosa Parks]] even though she is not acknowledged much. Around this time, Colvin was getting involved in the [[Youth Council]] of Montgomery of the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP). Even though they got a light sentence from the court, she was branded a [[wikt:troublemaker|troublemaker]].<ref name=Bio/> She dropped out of [[college]] and could not find a job.<ref name=