Article 5T4MR Civil Rights Champion Claudette Colvin Sees Her Juvenile Record Expunged 66 Years After Arrest Over Bus Seat

Civil Rights Champion Claudette Colvin Sees Her Juvenile Record Expunged 66 Years After Arrest Over Bus Seat

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Murjani Rawls
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When we think of boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama, collective minds immediately go to Rosa Parks and her bravery on Dec. 1st, 1995, rejecting a bus driver's insistence to vacate a colored" seat for a white passenger. She was later arrested, setting off the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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