Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Alabama May Consider Wiping the Arrest Records Clean for Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks

Last week, The Root reported that 82 year-old Claudette Colvin asked a court to expunge her record. She was arrested at 15 years old after refusing to get up from a bus seat in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks did the same. Colvin’s motion sparked interest in clearing the records for Parks, King and others arrested…

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