![]() ![]() Rosa Parks, explains what happened with her case,Ĭolvin’s case went to trial in May. Colvin had been charged with three crimes. ![]() The website based on the book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. She was inspired by school lessons on the Constitution during Black History Month. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested when she refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Claudette Colvin, 2013 interview on Democracy Now And I yelled out, ‘It’s my constitutional rights,’ because I wasn’t breaking a law under the state’s law, separate but equal I was sitting in the area that was reserved for black passengers. It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, and I could not move. I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. ![]()
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