Colvin asked a court last week to remove records stemming her from arrest and conviction after she refused to move to the back of a bus in 1955 in Montgomery, before Parks did the same. 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.

Yet their cases remain on the books, said civil rights attorney Fred Gray, who represented both. 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. King, who helped lead the resulting Montgomery Bus Boycott, paid a $500 fine after being convicted in 1956 of violating a law banning boycotts. Parks, a Black seamstress and activist who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955, was convicted of violating racial segregation laws. Montgomery: The quest by civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin to have her arrest record wiped clean nearly 70 years after she protested segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., whose convictions remain on the books in the former capital of the Confederacy.

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