FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, file photo, Bronx resident Claudette Colvin talks about segregation laws in the 1950s in Alabama while having her photo taken, in New York. Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Colvin did the same. Convicted of assaulting a police officer while being arrested, Colvin was placed on probation yet never received notice that she'd finished the term and was on safe ground legally. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
Civil Rights Pioneer Probation
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — 82-year-old, Claudette Colvin, a Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all.
Colvin was arrested by Montgomery police months before the better-known Rosa Parks because the mother of the movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Colvin was just 15 at the time, and she never got any notice saying her probation had ended.
Colvin says that resulted in decades of worry for relatives.
An attorney says Colvin will ask a court today to finally expunge her record.
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