However, this provision of the local law was usually ignored. She had been sitting far behind the seats already reserved for whites, and although a city ordinance empowered bus drivers to enforce segregation, blacks could not be asked to give up a seat in the “Negro” section of the bus for a white person when it was crowded. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Colvin, while riding on a segregated city bus, made the fateful decision that would make her a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Claudette Colvin and her guardians relocated to Montgomery when she was eight. Austin, but she was raised by her great-aunt and great-uncle, Mary Ann and Q.P. Her parents were Mary Jane Gadson and C.P. Claudette Colvin, a nurse’s aide and Civil Rights Movement activist, was born on September 5, 1939, in Birmingham, Alabama.
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