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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Claudette Colvin

1939 - Today

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Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in the first federal court case filed by civil rights attorney Fred Gray on February 1, 1956 as Browder v. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudette Colvin has received more than 2,672,499 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Claudette Colvin is the 358th most popular social activist (up from 361st in 2019), the 4,762nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,375th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Social Activist.

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  • 21

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  • 3.40

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Claudette Colvin ranks 358 out of 538Before her are William Howard Russell, Deniz Gezmiş, Mary Dyer, Mary Toft, Dorothy Day, and Jerry Rubin. After her are Harry Wu, Leona Vicario, Karl Ludwig Sand, Malala Yousafzai, Mathew Brady, and Ivan Bolotnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Claudette Colvin ranks 258Before her are Fahrudin Jusufi, Ivar Jacobson, Chögyam Trungpa, Sandro Salvadore, Igor Chislenko, and Yury Glazkov. After her are Stephen Cook, Gösta Ekman, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Judy Collins, Norma Cappagli, and José Emilio Pacheco.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 4,762 out of 18,182Before her are Ram Dass (1931), Kevin Schwantz (1964), Fred Gwynne (1926), Gene Wolfe (1931), Megan Thee Stallion (1995), and Steve Kanaly (1946). After her are Carl Spaatz (1891), Steven Zaillian (1953), Charles Dillon Perrine (1867), Big Joe Turner (1911), Muse Watson (1948), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Claudette Colvin ranks 45Before her are Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), Edna Parker (1893), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Lee Radziwill (1933), Dorothy Day (1897), and Jerry Rubin (1938). After her are Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Lester R. Brown (1934), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Samantha Smith (1972), and Sam Childers (1963).