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Claudette Colvin Timeline
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Claudette Colvin
1957
Claudette enrolles at Alabama State College but drops out after a year. Unable to find work in Montgomery, she goes to New York City with her aunt, Velma. Eventually she settles down in 1968 after giving birth to her second son, Randy. Claudette becomes a nurse's aide in a Catholic hospital in New York.
May 11, 1956
Browder v. Gayle takes place, and Claudette along with Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Fred Gray, and Jo Ann Robinson fight for their rights.
March 29, 1956
Raymond Colvin is born in Montgomery on March 29, 1956. He is named after Claudette's uncle. Raymond has fair skin and blue eyes, leading people to believe that the father is white. This causes a lot of hate to stir up towards Claudette.
1955 (ish)
Claudette becomes pregnant with Raymond Colvin, and is forced to drop out of school in Montgomery because her school had a rule of "If you're pregnant, you're out." Claudette goes to Birmingham to stay with her birthparents for a while.
March 2, 1955
Claudette Colvin Timeline
Claudette is told to move to the back of a bus, but she refuses to leave her seat. She is forced out of the bus by police and placed in the city jail cell.
November 10, 1952
Claudette's schoolmate and neighbor, sixteen-year-old Jeremiah Reeves is arrested and sentenced to death in an electric chair by an a white jury. This is a turning point in Claudette's life.
September 5, 1952
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Delphine, Claudette's sister, dies of Polio on September 5, 1952 at St. Jude Hospital on Claudette's thirteenth birthday.
September 5, 1939
Claudette Austin is born on September 5, 1939, in Birmingham. Her parents are CP Austin and Mary Jane Gadson.