CLAUDETTE COLVIN

Prasidha Padmanabhan is leading a modern-day crusade to rewrite the history books in one of the country's largest school districts.

The 82-year-old says having a clear record is important because of the message it sends to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The 82-year-old says having a clear record is important because of the message it sends to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Williams told Colvin, "You are a hero. To all of us."

The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to move to the back of a bus in segregated Alabama and never notified she'd completed probation.

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same.

An 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all.

Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Magazines are teaming up for interviews that pair young Black journalists with elders to tell stories about their lives.