Claudette Colvin has passed to glory today
From her wiki page--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin
snip-"Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939 – January 2026) was an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. It occurred nine months before the similar, more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.[1]"
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https://www.whatimreading.net/p/claudette-colvin-civil-rights-pioneer-bus-dead
snip-:Colvin was arrested on March 2, 1955, after refusing to give up her seat to a white woman, a decision that came several months prior to the more widely publicized act of defiance by Rosa Parks.
“Later I had a child born out of wedlock; I became pregnant when I was 16,” Colvin told NPR in 2015, explaining why civil rights leaders at the time chose to publicize Parks’ act of defiance instead. “And I didn’t fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.”
“I knew why they chose Rosa,” she continued. “They thought I would be too militant for them. They wanted someone mild and genteel like Rosa.”
Colvin’s act came at a high cost; she was made a ward of the State and placed on “indefinite probation.” Her court record was only recently cleared in 2021, at age 82."
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Link to tweet
"My heart is heavy learning of the passing of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin.
At age 15, Ms. Colvin was arrested on March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, for violating bus segregation ordinances, nine months before Rosa Parks. Ms. Colvin was made a ward of the State and placed on indefinite probation.
In 2021, it was the privilege of a lifetime to serve on the legal team that helped Ms. Colvin clear her record from the conviction.
As we worked on the court motion, I had the honor of spending time with Ms. Colvin to hear her story and get to know her.
My prayers are with her family as we commemorate this pioneer who made Alabama and our country a more equal place."
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