Aurelia Browder
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican activist
Aurelia Shines Browder Coleman was an African-American civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama. In April 1955, almost eight months before the arrest of Rosa Parks and a month after the arrest of Claudette Colvin, she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider.
Photos 1
Nearby in activists 6
About this person
Aurelia Shines Browder Coleman was an African-American civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama. In April 1955, almost eight months before the arrest of Rosa Parks and a month after the arrest of Claudette Colvin, she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider. She was the lead plaintiff in the 1956 Browder v. Gayle federal court case.
United StatesFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.