Nine Months Before Rosa Parks

Radio Diaries | Feb 27, 2018

You’ve heard of Rosa Parks, but do you know about Claudette Colvin?

On March 2, 1955, when Claudette was 15 years old, she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL. This was nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing.

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