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Originally Posted by Hayden
You should read up on Claudette Colvin, the actual first black woman to refuse to give her seat up on the bus, but the Civil Rights Movement didn't want to use her as a face of the movement due to her being a pregnant teen (and some people say because her skin was much darker than Rosa's)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
She's still alive in 2018! |
Wow what a story. Terrifying to think that it really wasn’t all that long ago and we still have a way to go.