Civil rights pioneer wants arrest record for refusing to give up seat expunged

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give way to a white person nine months before Rosa Parks, is asking a court to delete all records

The civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who in 1955 refused to give up her bus seat for a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, is asking a court to expunge all records of her arrest, saying she was never notified that her probation was finished.

I am an old woman now," said Colvin, 82, in a sworn statement. Having my records expunged will mean something to my grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And it will mean something for other Black children."