The Spencer Hamilton Blog

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...

On December 5 th , I got on my computer like I do every day at the end of my day and found out something that made me both sad and proud at the same time. Nelson Mandela, South African Freedom Fighter and its first Black President had died at the age of 95. I pause here to take a look at the people we will never know who fought for freedom and by freedom I don’t mean the ability to push their version of freedom on others, but the ability to respect all people as equally valid before each other. For the Christian, the Atheist, The Muslin, the Jew, The Rastafari, the Geek, the Judge, the Worker, The Teacher…and so on. There are many people who fought for a just society whose names we will never know but were represented well by the faces of those we do know. We may never know their names, but their sacrifice, hardship, and struggle are no less than the leaders and faces, whose bold voices lead them to their path to independence and self-autonomy in a fair and just society. Their sacri...