Montgomery bus boycott Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Arrest of Claudette Colvin=== {{Main|Claudette Colvin}} Black activists had begun to build a case to challenge state bus segregation laws around the arrest of 15-year-old [[Claudette Colvin]], a student at [[Booker T. Washington School (Montgomery, Alabama)|Booker T. Washington High School]] in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested, and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. At the time, Colvin was an active member in the [[NAACP Youth Council]], where Rosa Parks was an advisor.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc07-5_006 |title=The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |first=David J. |last=Garrow |journal=[[Southern Regional Council|Journal of the Southern Regional Council]] |volume=7 |issue=5 |page=24 |publisher=[[Emory University]] |year=1985 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714210519/http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc07-5_006 |archive-date=July 14, 2010}}</ref> Colvin's legal case formed the core of ''[[Browder v. Gayle]]'', which ended the Montgomery bus boycott when the Supreme Court ruled on it in December 1956. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page