A request by Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused in 1955 to give up her seat to a White person on an Alabama bus, to seal, destroy and expunge her juvenile court records has been granted.
Months before Rosa Parks, Colvin was 15 when she was arrested on March 2, 1955, for sitting toward the front of a bus in Alabama, violating segregation laws.
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