ChangeMakers.Claudette Colvin.
ChangeMakers. Claudette Colvin. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred 9 months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. So Why was Colvin largely forgotten, while Parks went on to become an icon of the Civil Rights Movement ? "I don’t thi