Editing Claudette Colvin (section)

== Life after activism ==
Colvin gave birth to a son, Raymond, in March 1956. Colvin left Montgomery for [[New York City]] in 1958,<ref name="Guardian1"/> because she had difficulty finding and keeping work following her participation in the federal court case that overturned bus segregation. Similarly, Rosa Parks left Montgomery for [[Detroit]] in 1957.<ref name="Chicago1"/> Colvin stated she was branded a troublemaker by many in her community. She withdrew from college, and struggled in the local environment.<ref name="biography.com">[http://www.biography.com/people/claudette-colvin-11378 "Claudette Colvin Biography"]. [[FYI (U.S. TV channel)|Bio]]. Retrieved February 8, 2016.</ref>

In New York, Colvin and her son Raymond initially lived with her older sister, Velma Colvin. In 1960, she gave birth to her second son, Randy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Hoose |first=Phillip |date=2016-04-01 |title=This once-forgotten civil rights hero deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-once-forgotten-civil-rights-hero-deserves-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom/2016/04/01/9d122726-e7bb-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html |access-date=2022-10-30 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Claudette began a job in 1969 as a nurse's aide in a [[nursing home]] in [[Manhattan]]. She worked there for 35 years, retiring in 2004. Raymond Colvin died in 1993 in New York of a [[heart attack]] at age 37.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Barnes |first=Brooks |date=2009-11-26 |title=From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/books/26colvin.html |access-date=2022-10-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Her son Randy is an accountant in [[Atlanta]] and father of Colvin's four grandchildren.<ref name=":1" />