Her body became limp as two white policemen took her from the bus. The phrase "It's my constitutional right" was repeated by her. She was taken into custody while being handcuffed, accused of breaking the law against segregation, upsetting the peace, and assaulting a police officer.
Claudette Colvin is a retired nurse assistant who became a civil rights activist in the United States in the 1950s. She was detained on March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 15, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
Colvin was detained after she refused to vacate her seat and was charged with various offenses, including breaking the city's segregation regulations. She sat in detention for hours, afraid to die.
Colvin later recalled, "I was genuinely terrified because you really didn't know what white folks may do at that time. She returned home after her minister had paid her bail, where she and her family spent the entire night worrying about potential revenge.
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