Unlearned History Episode 3 Claudette Colvin
Video on Youtube can be found here: https://youtu.be/BKNv5OYxU24 Claudette Colvin Unlearned History Episode 3 Did you know 9 months before Rosa Parks another black young lady had been kicked off the bus? She in fact inspired Rosa Parks to do the same in December of 1955. The young lady at the time is Claudette Colvin. She was 15 years old and refused to get off the bus in Montgomery and her story is particularly wonderful. So let’s give some context: Stores are segregated and something as simple as buying shoes bears the sting of segregation. Black people had to put their foot on a paper bag and outline it in order to buy shoes as they were not allowed to try them on first. There were still signs up in the stores at this time and daily life was marked along a clear line of race So that fateful day after learning a lot of black history and fed up with injustice she just snapped. A white woman told her to move and she said “No, I paid my fare and this is my constitutional r