Rosa Parks was the TRAINED Civil Rights activist who REENACTED the events that took place when the AVERAGE Black woman Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the bus because HER feet hurt.
I wish more people knew and understood this.
Why didn’t my teacher teach this smh
The More you know =O
The civil rights movement didn’t want to use Claudette because she was pregnant without a husband.
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Claudette didnt become pregnant until the summer afterwards. theNAACP didn’t want to use Claudette because she was poor, dark skinned and her father was and alcoholic. they felt white people wouldn’t sympathize with her. stop trying to clean up history
Wayament what?!
Let’s hear it from Ms. Colvin herself:
“When asked why she is little known and why everyone thinks only of Rosa Parks, Colvin says the NAACP and all the other black organizations felt Parks would be a good icon because “She was an adult. They didn’t think teenagers would be reliable.”
She also says Parks had the right hair and the right look. “Her skin texture was the kind that people associate with the middle class,” says Colvin. “She fit that profile.”
Also, there were other black women who refused to give up their seats but were “quietly fined.” Unfortunately, their stories never made headlines. (source)
