User:TJScalzo/Claudette Colvin

This is the latest version of Claudette Colvin's Early life section. I made some changes to bolster the first paragraph and clarify the sources in the second one. Now I'm hoping to expand the second paragraph so it doesn't feel so disconnected.

Early life
Claudette Colvin was born Claudette Austin in Birmingham, Alabama on September 5, 1939, to Mary Jane Gadson and C.P. Austin. When Austin abandoned the family, Gadson was unable to financially support her children. So, Claudette and her younger sister, Delphine, were taken in by their great aunt and uncle, Mary Anne and Q.P. Colvin whose daughter, Velma Colvin, had already moved out. Claudette and her sister referred to the Colvins as their parents and took their last name. When they took Claudette in, the Colvins lived in Pine Level, a small country town in Montgomery County, the same town where Rosa Parks grew up. When Claudette was 8-years-old, the Colvins moved to King Hill, a poor black neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama where she spent the rest of her childhood.

Two days before Claudette's 13th birthday, Delphine died of polio. Not long after, in September 1952, Colvin started attending Booker T. Washington High School. Despite being a good student, Colvin had difficulty connecting with her peers in school due to grief. She was also a member of the NAACP Youth Council, where she formed a close relationship with her mentor, Rosa Parks.