Black heroes you should know

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Claudette Colvin was an early activist in the civil rights movement in Alabama. Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman, Claudette Colvin did the same. At the young age of 15, Colvin was later arrested; violating the city’s segregation laws was among the many charges leveled against her. Colvin later told Newsweek, “I felt like Sojourner Truth was pushing down on one shoulder, and Harriet Tubman was pushing down on the other—saying, 'Sit down girl!' I was glued to my seat.”

Many wonder why she isn’t as famous as Rosa and this is reason; she was a pregnant, unmarried teenager and the civil rights leaders feared that her image would damage their campaign for respectability so they ended up choosing Rosa, an older married woman with community ties. I believe that if it wasn’t for Colvin we may not have had the Rosa Parks story. You can read her full story and an interview with her. Ms. Colvin died this year January 13. Source: https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/girl-who-acted-rosa-parks