Civil Rights Pioneer Seeks Expungement of ’55 Arrest Record
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – An 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all. Claudette Colvin was arrested by Montgomery police months before the better-known Rosa Parks because of the mother of the movement…
