March 2, 1955 - Nine months before Rosa Parks made headlines, teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person. She was active in the Youth Council of the local NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).

Though the Montgomery Bus Boycott was begun after Ms. Parks’s arrest, Clovin’s legal case became part of the basis for a federal court challenge to Alabama’s segregation laws. Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, in which the Supreme Court ultimately struck down the law under which she was arrested for merely taking her set on a bus

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"On March 2, 1955, she was returning home from school when she boarded a Highland Gardens bus and sat down near an emergency exit in a middle row."

71 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin

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"Whenever people ask me 'Why didn't you get up when the bus driver asked you?' I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail."
—Claudette Colvin

Quotation source: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43171799
Photo: Andi Rice via Oprah Daily
#RIPClaudetteColvin #ClaudetteColvin

La mort de #ClaudetteColvin, pionnière méconnue des droits civiques aux #EtatsUnis
Cette Afro-Américaine qui avait refusé, en mars 1955, à 15 ans, de laisser sa place à des passagers blancs dans un bus avait été éclipsée par la figure de #RosaParks, qui avait eu le même geste de révolte neuf mois plus tard.
Par #CorineLesnes #usa #LeMonde

https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/01/15/la-mort-de-claudette-colvin-pionniere-meconnue-des-droits-civiques-aux-etats-unis_6662380_3382.html

Qui était #claudettecolvin , figure historique des #droitsciviques aux #etatsunis , décédée le 13 ?

#feminisme #droitsciviquesafroamericains

https://information.tv5monde.com/terriennes/destins-de-femmes-et-claudette-colvin-15-ans-refusa-de-ceder-sa-place-31551