Claudetta Was Arrested

Patricia A. Montgomery, artist

born 1952

Claudetta Was Arrested, circa 2014

Portfolio/Series title: Tribute to Civil Rights Movement Heroines

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: decorative stitches; digital images; cotton fabrics; stripped piecing; buttons; textile thread painting

Credit line: Patricia A. Montgomery, Artist

Accession number: EL2017.021

Not on display

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Narratives of the Soul

This quilted coat represents Claudetta Colvin, a school girl who was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 2, 1955—nine months before the arrest of Rosa Parks. On February 1, 1956, Colvin was one of the four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, a District Court case that found Montgomery’s segregated public bus system unconstitutional.