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2EJ522N Claudette Colvin (b.1939). Portrait of the pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement, taken in 1954. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

Claudette Colvin: The Teenage Revolutionary Who Ignited a Movement

In the spring of 1955, when the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, were still divided by the sharp lines…


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Liverpool Saturday 19 July

The Magic of Motown

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Liverpool Saturday 19 July

The Magic of Motown

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Camden Sunday 20 July

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🎶 With influences ranging from Jorge Ben and Caetano Veloso to the manguebeat energy of Chico Science, Brazilian…