Recognize Claudette Colvin's enormous contributions to civil rights by giving her the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Claudette Colvin is an African-American woman who at the age of 15 in 1955, refused to surrender her public bus seat to a white passenger. She was jailed. Ms. Colvin obtained a lawyer and challenged the charges in court. This nearly a year before Rosa Parks made the same protest in the same city. Moreover the following year Claudette Colvin and three other women—not including Mrs. Parks-- risked their lives by becoming plaintiffs in the successful federal court challenge BROWDER V. GAYLE which ended racially segregated seating on public buses in Alabama. We ask President Obama to honor a woman who made giant steps for freedom.
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