Claudette Colvin Cases

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Civil Rights Claudette Colvin was only 15 years old when she became the first person to be arrested for refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, on March 2, 1955. Her refusal to give up her seat had happened 9 months before Rosa Parks had been arrested for the same thing (USA Today). Claudette was one of five litigants who had been chosen to participate in the federal court case, Browder V. Gayle. She had testified before the three-judge panel that heard the case. On June 13, 1956, the judges determined that the laws enforcing bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional. The case was sent to the Supreme Court for evaluation and Colvin was the last witness to testify. The Supreme Court then issued an order to