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Spark: Anthony Mackie to Make Feature Directorial Debut About Civil Rights Icon Claudette Colvin
The upcoming film will center around the little known story of 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her bus seat in 1955.
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Civil Rights Champion Claudette Colvin Sees Her Juvenile Record Expunged 66 Years After Arrest Over Bus Seat
“The hardship and intimidation that took place in those years and the reason I took a stand to defy the segregated law,” Covin says as record is cleared.
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Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin Just Wants Her Record Expunged
Colvin was 15 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955, nine months before Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.