ALABAMA JUDGE SURPRISES CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER AFTER CLEARING HER ARREST RECORD

The Kansas City Globe e-Edition
ALABAMA JUDGE SURPRISES CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER AFTER CLEARING HER ARREST RECORD
ALABAMA JUDGE SURPRISES CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER AFTER CLEARING HER ARREST RECORD

Judge Calvin Williams of Montgomery, Alabama (left) wasn’t born yet when 15-year-old Claudette Colvin (right) was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. But he says he benefited from the civil rights pioneer. And it’s not lost on him that he is now the one – 66 years later – who was able to expunge the record of that incident and clear her name it was reported today on CBS.com. ”I wan…