| LC control no. | n 2008009234 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Colvin, Claudette, 1939- |
| Variant(s) | Austin, Claudette, 1939- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19390905 |
| Place of birth | Birmingham (Ala.) |
| Affiliation | Manhattan nursing home |
| Profession or occupation | Nurses Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Claudette Colvin, 2009 : ECIP galley (b. Claudette Austin, Sept. 5, 1939, Birmingham, Ala.; raised by her great aunt and uncle, Mary Ann and Q.P. Colvin; currently resides in New York City) African American National Biography, accessed December 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Colvin, Claudette; Claudette Austin; civil rights activist, nurse; born 05 September 1939 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States; completed General Education Diploma, a high school equivalency test (1957); found guilty in a Montgomery Circuit Court case for breaking the segregation ordinance, disturbing the peace and assaulting the arresting policemen, pleading not guilty before the Montgomery Circuit Court (1955); took part in the Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956); testified in Browder v. Gayle, a landmark case concluding African American citizens were denied their Fourteenth amendment rights (1956); worked as a nurse's aide in a Manhattan nursing home (1968-1973)) |
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