CLAUDETTE COLVIN

After many years of being overlooked, Colvin's struggle is finally being recognized by people across the country, including Vice President Kamala Harris.

Prasidha Padmanabhan is leading a modern-day crusade to rewrite the history books in one of the country's largest school districts.

Written By Bilal G. Morris(Source NewsOne):A civil rights icon who had been on probation since 1955 over her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama has finally had her arrest record expunged following decades of outcry. Colvin’s arrest came about nine months before the Montgomery bus boycott began following the arrest of Rosa Parks for the same Jim Crow-era offense. Now 82, nearly 67 years later, a judge in Montgomery has granted Colvin’s petition to have her arrest record wiped clean, CBS News re-ported. “My record was expunged,” Colvin told “CBS Mornings” in an exclusive interview on Thursday. But Colvin and her lawyer still hope to get her record expunged by the Montgomery County court.

The 82-year-old says having a clear record is important because of the message it sends to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The 82-year-old says having a clear record is important because of the message it sends to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Williams told Colvin, "You are a hero. To all of us."

The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to move to the back of a bus in segregated Alabama and never notified she'd completed probation.

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same.

An 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all.

Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Magazines are teaming up for interviews that pair young Black journalists with elders to tell stories about their lives.

Long before Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks made history for refusing to give up seats on segregated buses, Wells was dragged from a train car reserved for white women. The train conductor told Wells to move to the smoking car, where black passengers were forced to sit, but she stayed where she was. He tried to drag me out of the seat, but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened my teeth in the back of his hand, she wrote in her autobiography.