{"id":5351,"date":"2018-02-16T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2023-06-08T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T09:26:11","slug":"claudette-colvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/claudette-colvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudette Colvin, Original Woman Who Refused to Give Up Her Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5351\" class=\"elementor elementor-5351\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-330ab325 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"330ab325\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-585306c7\" data-id=\"585306c7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-feb164b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"feb164b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\tMost history books forget that Claudette Colvin is an African-American who refused to give up her seat on the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks.\n\nIt was March 2nd, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Colvin paid her fare and refused to get up from the seat for a white woman. She&#8217;d been studying Black history in high school that month and felt inspired by Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. She felt the spirit of those two women pushing her down in her seat, telling her not to give it up.\n\n&#8220;All I remember is that I was not going to walk off the bus voluntarily,&#8221; Colvin told NPR.&nbsp;She was put in handcuffs and taken to the local jail.\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_5354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5354\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5354 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/claudetteyoung.jpg\" alt=\"Claudette Colvin age 15\" width=\"507\" height=\"507\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudette Colvin, age 15.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nAfter the incident, her civil disobedience didn&#8217;t make much of a splash. She was young&nbsp;and soon became pregnant. Because of this, her courageous act went all but unnoticed for many years. In fact, people began to think of her as a &#8216;troublemaker&#8217; within her community and she had difficulty finding employment, and soon moved to New York.\n\nWhile the court decided she was guilty in her legal case and she was given probation, Colvin did go on to serve as a plaintiff in the historic&nbsp;<em>Browder v. Gayle <\/em>legal case, which ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott and segregation on&nbsp;public buses in the city.\n\nMany think if it wasn&#8217;t for Colvin, the media wouldn&#8217;t have paid much attention to Rosa Parks and the movement that followed. For this, we offer her immense gratitude.\n\n<em>If you want to learn the rest of her story, peep her interview with Teen Vogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/claudette-colvin-explains-her-role-in-the-civil-rights-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Then go read<\/em>&nbsp;Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice<em>,&nbsp;authored by Phil Hoose.<\/em>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3NvXzFOb6w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most history books forget that Claudette Colvin is an African-American who refused to give up her seat on the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks. It was March 2nd, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Colvin paid her fare and refused to get up from the seat for a white woman. 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