The quest by Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer, to have her arrest record wiped clean 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.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. accompanied by Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy is booked by city police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 23, 1956.The Associated Press
Parks refused to pay her $10 fine, and she and King went on to become icons of racial justice and the modern civil rights movement. Yet their cases remain on the books in Montgomery, said civil rights attorney Fred Gray, who represented both. The chief prosecutor in Alabama’s capital, Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey, said he would generally support a move to expunge the arrest records of King and Parks, but he’d need to see details of any such request before responding in court.Gene Herrick / APas she asked a court on Tuesday to remove records stemming her from arrest and conviction after she refused to move to the back of a bus in compliance with racial segregation laws in March 1955 in Montgomery.
“That would take a hundred years, maybe 200 years to go through the court system,” she said. “You could never finish it.”
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