Claudette Colvin was an fifteen-year-old student at Booker T. Washington High School in March 1955 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person. Her action preceded Rosa Parksí by almost nine months. Almost a year later, in February 1956, Ms. Colvin was one of the plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the federal court case that desegregated Montgomeryís city buses.

On March 4, 2005, almost fifty years to the day after her arrest, students from BTWís Creative Writing and Law magnets joined Ms. Colvin, her younger sister Gayle Gadson, a long-time friend Annie Larkin Price, and Dr. Gwen Patton for a luncheon in Troy University Montgomeryís Whitley Hall. The discussion was arranged and mediated by Dr. Georgette Norman, the director of the Rosa Parks Museum.