The juvenile record of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has been expunged, 66 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman.
has been expunged, 66 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman.
Montgomery County Juvenile Judge Calvin Williams signed the order to expunge her records on Nov. 24, his office confirmed to NBC News. "I appreciate the Judge's decision to do it and that means that, I'm no longer, at 82, a juvenile delinquent," Colvin said in a press conference Tuesday. "History had me glued to the seat," she said in the affidavit. “Sitting there, it felt to me as though Harriet Tubman’s hand was on one shoulder pushing me down and Sojourner Truth’s hand was on the other."
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