Alabama NewsCenter – Claudette Colvin, supporters hope to clear her record for civil rights era arrest

By Mark Kelly

On Oct. 26, a bright and cloudless fall afternoon nearly 67 years after Claudette Colvin’s arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman, a crowd of about 50 people gathered outside the building that houses the juvenile division of Montgomery County Family Court. They were there to support the submission to the court of a petition for expungement of her criminal record. Virtually all were masked as they mingled, patiently awaiting her arrival.

Colvin’s unfinished journey began on March 2, 1955, when as a 15-year-old student she boarded a Montgomery city bus, as she did each day on finishing class at Booker T. Washington High School.

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