Claudette Colvin was a civil rights activist in the 1950s. Claudette lived in Montgomery, Alabama and grew up there. Claudette never realized how badly blacks were treated until one day when she was in school a boy named Jeremiah Reeves was caught having sexual contact with white women. When it was found out the women claimed it was alleged rape but he claimed it was consensual but because blacks weren't given any significance or voice he was arrested, charged with being a serial rapist and sentenced to death. He was executed later on and this made Claudette realize how blacks were really treated in her city. When she was only 15 years old, she stood up against segregation. On March 2, 1955, Claudette was coming home from school on a Capital …show more content…
I paid my fare, it's my constitutional right.” Colvin stated that "I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other - saying 'sit down girl!' I was glued to my seat." The police had to physically assault her and forcefully pulled off the bus. What she did heat up lots of talking in Alabama about segregation laws. Colvin knew that if she had bought the bus ticket she had the right to sit wherever she wanted not told where to sit. As Claudette was growing up she loved school and did well, she had mostly A's and wanted to become the president of the United States one day. Claudette was arrested for violating the city's segregation laws, but after several hours of being in jail scared of what the white people might do to her, her minister bailed her out. When she was in court the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People thought about using her case to fight against segregation but didn't follow through because of her age. in court, Colvin said that she wasn't guilty but the court put her on