Claudette Colvin was born September 5, 1939. She was an orphan, but her mother, Mary Ann Colvin, and C.P. Colvin, her father, adopted  her. She grew up in Montgomery, Alabama; she was only 4 when she noticed the segregation that was going on. On March  2,1955, Colvin sat down two seats away from the emergency exit in the black people’s  section. The rule was that if all the white people’s seats were taken, an African American had to get up or stand if there were no more free seats left. The bus driver commanded that Colvin and three other African American women to move. The  pregnant women sat beside Colvin, and when she moved, Colvin decided that she still was not going to move.  After having her first child, Raymond Colvin, she moved to New York to become a nurse. Nine months after Rosa Parks sat down on the bus, and the people in the black community thought that Rosa Parks would be a better image for the boycott movement because she was an adult and her appearance and hair made her look as if she wer middle class. Colvin thinks she didn’t get the recognition she should have gotten and remains alive today at age 77.