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    Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old girl who in March 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking protests within the black community. In June 1956, judges ruled two to one that bus segregation violated the Constitution after Colvin testified in court. This led to the court ordering the desegregation of Montgomery buses in December 1956. Claudette Colvin's role in challenging bus segregation received more recognition decades later with the publication of her biography in 2009 and being honored by the New Jersey Transit Authority in 2013.

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    Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old girl who in March 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking protests within the black community. In June 1956, judges ruled two to one that bus segregation violated the Constitution after Colvin testified in court. This led to the court ordering the desegregation of Montgomery buses in December 1956. Claudette Colvin's role in challenging bus segregation received more recognition decades later with the publication of her biography in 2009 and being honored by the New Jersey Transit Authority in 2013.

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    Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old girl who in March 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking protests within the black community. In June 1956, judges ruled two to one that bus segregation violated the Constitution after Colvin testified in court. This led to the court ordering the desegregation of Montgomery buses in December 1956. Claudette Colvin's role in challenging bus segregation received more recognition decades later with the publication of her biography in 2009 and being honored by the New Jersey Transit Authority in 2013.

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    Claudette Colvin

    March 1955: 15 years


    old, she refused to
    stand up for a white
    passenger.

    March 1955: She


    was arrested and it
    drew attention to
    leaders in the black
    community.

    June 1956: Colvin


    testified, Judges ruled
    two to one that this
    segregation violated
    the Constitution.

    2009: Her biography


    became popular. Claudette
    Colvin: Twice toward
    Justice

    December 1956:
    Court ordered to
    desegregate
    Montgomery
    buses.

    2013: She was honored by


    New Jersey Transit
    Authority for her part in
    the fight for civil rights

    1956: -Joined Congress of


    Racial Equality (CORE).
    Picketed at Woolworths
    store in NY
    -Traveled to Sit-ins in
    Virginia and South
    Carolina

    Stokely Carmichael
    1964: copied Freedom
    Summer, making an
    aggressive campaign to
    register black votes in the
    Deep South.

    1961: Went on first


    Freedom Ride, he was
    arrested for entering the
    Whites Only bus stop
    waiting room.

    1968: His book, Black


    Power: The Politics of
    Liberation, he
    explained the meaning
    of Black Power.

    1965: Moved to Lowndes


    County, Alabama, he
    founded his own political
    party known as the Black
    Panther.

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