Civil rights leader Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin

Living place: Alabama

Birthday: 5-9-1939 (85 years old)

Population of US 1939: 130,879,718

Global rank: #22042

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Civil rights leader Claudette Colvin profile

Who is Civil rights leader Claudette Colvin?
Civil rights activists in the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s were the first to oppose bus segregation, nine months before Rosa Parks has been kicked off the Boycott Montgomery Bus.
She testified in the case of Browder v. Gayle, was appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, which in turn declared the bus segregated to the 1956 constitution.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She was a student at the apartheid Washington Booker T. High School in Alabama and she was pregnant as a teenager.

Family life info

She had a son named Raymond.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Civil rights leader Claudette Colvin?
She was against bus segregation nine months before Rosa Parks, but NAACP leaders were hesitant to use her as a representative for the movement because of her pregnancy as an unmarried teenager.

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When was Civil rights leader Claudette Colvin born?
Claudette Colvin birthday 5-9-1939 (at the age of 85).
Where is Civil rights leader Claudette Colvin's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Claudette Colvin was born in Alabama, . is a Civil rights leader, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Claudette Colvin's global rank is 22042 and whose rank is 23 in list of famous Civil rights leader. Population of US in 1939 is about 130,879,718 persons.
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Events in 1939 and 5-9

Events in US in the birth year of Claudette Colvin

  • As World War II begins, Roosevelt submits $1,319-million defense budget, proclaims U.S. neutrality, and declares limited emergency.
  • New York World's Fair opens. Background: exposition
  • Daughters of the American Revolution refuses to allow Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture starts first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y. Program ends in 1943.

Birthday Claudette Colvin (5-9) in history

  • Day 5-9 year 1698: Peter, the Great of Russia, issued a strange decree, taxing bearded men.
  • Day 5-9 year 1774: The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Day 5-9 year 1836: The Republic of Texas made miltary hero Sam Houston its first president.
  • Day 5-9 year 1905: The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth naval base in New Hampshire.
  • Day 5-9 year 1972: Palestinian guerrillas killed 11 Israelis at the Munich Summer Olympics.
  • Day 5-9 year 1997: Humanitarian Mother Teresa, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor, died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.
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