Our Ugly Past When Extreme Violence Was an Accepted Behavior
Arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman in the spring of 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old teenager from Alabama was taken to the women's penitentiary. A local reverend posted her bail, releasing the teenager so that she could go home to her parents. While she was incarcerated... Sign in to see full entry.