‘My Name Was Cleared’: Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin’s Arrest Record Expunged 66 Years After She Refused to Give Up Her Seat to a White Woman In Montgomery
Claudette Colvin no longer has a criminal record stemming from her 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. “My name was cleared. I’m no longer a juvenile delinquent at the age of 82,” were Colvin’s proud words almost three months after she and her legal team sought to have her record expunged. Alabama Juvenile Court Judge Calvin…